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Speaker 1: Caalaroga, Shock Media may the I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. Are you people really sitting home Memorial

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Day weekend and watching television? Netflix seems to think so.

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Tonight is the premiere of season two of Tom Sigora's

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Bad Thoughts six episodes I loved season one. Bad Thoughts

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follows Tom Sagora as he navigates unthinkable situations and fantasies

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within a cinematic world. I laughed out loud at season one.

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Netflix describes the series as a collection of hilariously disturbing

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stories that push boundaries of decency in ways only Tom

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Sagora could imagine. Tom Sagora said, it was such a

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thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and harrifi audiences

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with our very own bad Thoughts on Netflix. We're all

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so excited to push things further. Bad Thoughts on Netflix tonight.

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Jerry Seinfeld has made the claim that without Seinfeld the show,

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there would be no Friends. Jerry said this during the

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New Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival. But there was

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this roast of Kevin Hart and Stephen Colbreer week and

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sometimes stories get to sleep for a holiday Weekend. You

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know what I'm saying, Jerry said. I think NBC was

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watching my show and they said, hey, this is working

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pretty well. Why don't we try the same thing with

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good looking people. Apparently Jerry has had this chip on

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his shoulder for years. In twenty twenty two, Lisa Kudro

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told The Daily Beast she ran it to Jerry Seinfeld,

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who told her you're welcome. Kudro said, thank you, what

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and he said, you're on after us in the summer.

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You're welcome. In twenty twenty four, when promoting the movie Unfrosted,

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Jerry joked about when people steal your ideas and do

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whatever they want with them. Seinfeld said, you mean like Friends.

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I don't know about that, Jerry. I don't know about

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any of that now, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Sure, Friends was

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on after Seinfeld? When was Seinfeld on between nineteen ninety

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one and nineteen ninety three? It was on nine thirty

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on Thursdays? What was on at nine o'clock? Cheers? So Jerry,

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next time we run into Ted Danson, say thanks Jay

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times as a very good boy boyd look at John

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take a shot at Jerry Seinfeld, But come on, man,

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lead In's work. That's why we do them. Nobody was

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watching Seinfeld at first, except crazy people like me who

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knew Jerry Seinfeld as a recurring comedian on the Wonderful

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Late Night with David Letterman show. There were two guys

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that we couldn't get enough of, Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno.

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So when I heard Jerry Seinfeld was getting a sitcom,

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I watched it from episode one, but nobody else did.

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Show almost got canceled. So yeah, I went on after Cheers.

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That's how you build a network. And then they moved

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Seinfeld up to nine and they threw on a show

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they believed in after I've never once watched Friends and

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been like, oh, this is just Seinfeld with better looking people.

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Not once. Sorry, I don't know why I'm riled up

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about this. I don't even like Friends. I don't care.

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The La Times has a very robust comedy section. They

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wrote an article we watched everything we could at Netflix's joke.

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This is what stood out. I thought this would be

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very interesting to take a look at, they wrote. Considering

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the amount of comedy that was dropped on La the

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idea that anyone could see it all is laughable. Yet,

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of course, like fools, once again, we tried try and

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fly through this Shane Gillis show at the Hollywood Bowl,

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Commanding a solid roster veteran comics including James McCann, Sam

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Jay Ron White, Dan Soder and Jim Jefferies as a

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pretty good lineup, Gillis took on the role of a

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grizzled and playfully perverse football coach, hosting the night and

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telling funny stories about his days as a very average

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high school football player on crappy all white teams before

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he blew up. In comedy, they liked Mike Ward at Dynasty, typewriter,

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record breaker and a master of storytelling in French. Mike

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Ward did not disappoint with his all English crossover, covering

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everything from his legendary Supreme Court of Canada case to

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teenage lust, dating after marriage, attempting generosity and trunk love.

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Ward mentioned jokes translating from friends to English and how

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that hit. But he was definitely in his element. That's great.

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They went to see Jerry Seinfeld featuring Leanne Morgan Leanne,

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I hope you said thanks. The Eli Times wrote, blending

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the big city humor with hilarious Southern comfort. Might sound

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like an odd pairing, but somehow the combo of Jerry

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Seinfeld and LeAnn Morgan just works. Yes, we love a

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good rant about the terrors of technology from a comedy

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to add warmth and sweetness to her smack talk about

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being a small town cheer mom and the world of

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competitive cheerleading, which he described as the Olympics meets honey booboo.

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That's great. They liked. Nate Jackson at the Laugh Factory Hollywood.

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The La Time says it's a skill for comedian to

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on their toes at the same time. Try doing it

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for six shows back to back. In Jackson's case, that

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meant delivering some third degree burns in the front several

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rows of the crowd known as the roast zone. Jackson

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prefaces every show the same way. Rule number one. If

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look away. That is the rule in the standard I

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do not get people unless they lock eyes and give

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me consent. As a matter of fact, this is called

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a roast zone. If anyone is accidentally down there, it's

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time to get the f out, because rule number two

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is if I look at you and you look at me,

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and I start and you don't like what I decided

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to talk about, looking away, will no longer save you.

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Wanda Sykes at the Adobe Theater, Politics, family, inflation, racism, wait, gain,

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and greed were among the multiple topics. Kill Tony at

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the Inn, to a Doom on the Panel, Harlan Williams

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and Gabriel Iglesias. The Legends bucket made it sway to

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the Arena in La. The polls were Ron White, Jode

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de Rosa, and Tony's number one favorite comic, Tony Hinchcliff

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played by Adam Ray. Oh that sounds amazing. Oh, I

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if I can find something quick. Maybe somebody grabbed that.

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I didn't know that happened. Makes some noise for Brian

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band in the land. Oh my god. On the leave

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a bald who's ready for the best and out of

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their lives. Oh yeah, oh my god, we're really doing

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it Red Band every Monday. We're doing it live. All right.

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That was fun. The visual definitely helps, but boy, that's fuzzee.

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I like hosting the show, and that's why I don't

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like that Tony Hitchcliff played by Adam raygeow the crowd

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exactly what effortless and absolute merciless veteran comedy looks like

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Dave Chappelle. Now this is interesting. The La Times Rights

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were not allowed to say anything about what went on

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at the Dave Chappelle three show residency other than the

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fact it was an evening of music and comedy per usual.

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They locked up the crowd's phones to see a show,

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But why aren't they allowed to say anything like couldn't

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somebody as a civilian go to the show? It's been

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very weird. I've seen nothing about that Chappelle three Chappelle shows. Nothing,

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nothing has come out. Very strange. Hasan Minhajs versus Ronnie

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prove who's better suited to fix a broken America, Asians

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or Indians, never mind that Indians or South Asians. The

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two comedians got plenty of laughs backing up there absurd

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arguments with flow charts, graphs, curated news clips, an ai

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like a fun show. They broke the down the debate

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in the categories Who's better at academics, business, in the economy, cuisine.

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Ronnie Chang argued that Asians are better at sports. With

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a list of Olympic gold medal wins over the past

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three Summer Games. He won't use all of Asia, he said,

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just China. The result the country had over one hundred

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gold medals India had just won. Hasan Minhaj wondered aloud,

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for people who love gold so much, why is it

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so hard for us to win one? Sounds like a

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good show. Otsgo at Coska. The La Times said her

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show at the Orphium is the result of a brand

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new hour she's been performing on tour and includes plenty

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of jokes about dinosaurs and her love of Jamaican dancehall choreography.

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I've seen the show. All that is very very funny.

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If otsgoes around go see it. It's a great hour.

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Before she got on stage, she got blindsided by the

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appearance of two comedy titans, Margaret Show and Trevor Noah. Wow,

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that's a nice bonus. Who came out to deliver punchy,

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political driven opening sets that got loads of laughter and

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will be on Netflix. In twenty twenty seven, Australian born

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poems and tow and dark humor, Dialed two and eleven.

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He questioned LA's homeless crisis may have questioned the audience

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a bit too much and tore through his thoughts on

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a census overhaul, the insanity of the TV show Survivor,

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the glory days of drinking, and having visions of finally

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being successful enough to hire his dream team. The La

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Times also hit the Two Bears five K They tell

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us whether you kicked off the Magical day of athleticism

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and a Downward Dog with Ari Shafir, if he went

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straight for the starting line with Bert Kreischer, Thoms Agora

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and jelly roll. They were stretching, pacing, sweating, and rejoicing

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to be had a bunch of comics on hand. The

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finish line led runners directly into the Rose Bowl, where

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there were plenty of poor osos, flowing snacks, interactive games

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and recovery stations, and a live taping of Two Bears,

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One Cave. Sunday, May tenth, Marcelo Hernandez, they didn't really

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say too much. You're gonna think I'm doing a bit here,

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they wrote on Saturday Night Live, he plays a Latin

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lover named Tomingo. But at the Hollywood Bowl on Mother's

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Day Sunday, headliner Marcello Hernandez riffed on his real life

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as a mama's boy growing up in Miami and duly

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invited out his mom is Isabelle, who has met with

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the standing ovation. Then they discussed the roast of Kevin Hard.

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Greek Theater, Flight of the Concords, looking a bit more

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like silver foxes than young birds that made the timeless

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chuckle inducing tunes like robots, The most beautiful girl in

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the room hurt feelings in business time Land with even

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more impact as the crowd enjoyed some long awaited nostalgia.

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mess up in sire songs. Sure, With a dose of

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Kiwi banter and the ability to laugh at themselves, the

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mistakes only made the show funnier and a reminder of

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why they've missed them. You can find of that show

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I enjoyed it, all right. It's a holiday weekend. Let

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me get you out of here. Let me tell you

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one more thing from the BBC. Hundreds of comedians have

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reportedly gone unpaid after the Lesser Comedy Festival. The festival

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attracted around a hundred th spectators and featured more than

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five hundred acts, including Stephen Frye, Sarah Pesco and Rosie Holt.

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Organizers said performers were expected to be paid after the event,

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which ran in February, but payments have been delayed because

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of cash flow problems. Comedian Benjamin Alborough said he was

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owed just short of two thousand British pounds. It's very frustrating.

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I got bills to pay like everybody else. Between festival

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registration fees and travel and accommodation and production costs AFT

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to invest several hundred pounds per individual show. I want

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the Lester Comedy Festival to succeed because it's a brilliant thing.

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But in order to do that, everyone needs to get paid.

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Artists needs to be paid money. Canadian comedian Zoe Brownstone

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said she was owed around two hundred and twenty five

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US dollars. I guess they did a conversion here. I've

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done a few festivals, this, by a mile was the

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most prepared. People donated more for tickets. Leaving the festival,

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I felt great. I never felt so positive. It's astonishing

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at the end of the day. Michael Harris Wakelam, chief

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executive of the nonprofit organization Big Difference, which runs the festival,

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said it's a case of the cash flow problem. But

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we're trying to communicate with the artist is this is

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a case of a small delay rather than you won't

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be paid. He said the organization was still waiting on

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money from sponsorships, third party ticket sales and commissioned shows,

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and was exploring bridge financing with banks. That is your

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comedy news for today, See you tomorrow,