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Speaker 1: The Richard Simmons family would like Pauli Shore to just
Speaker 1: cut it out. In case you're not familiar with the story,
Speaker 1: Pauli Shuore has expressed a desire to play Richard Simmons
Speaker 1: in a bio pick. He's been talking about it for
Speaker 1: quite a while now. He'll offer updates in his social media.
Speaker 1: Usually the updates have Richard Simmons asking Pauli Shore to stop.
Speaker 1: Richard has now passed away entertainment. Tonight, asked Pauli Shore,
Speaker 1: you know all right, what's happening now? Pauli said, I
Speaker 1: know he wanted me to do it. I don't even
Speaker 1: know if it was him tweeting disapproval the whole time,
Speaker 1: And be quite honest, I don't know who that was.
Speaker 1: Well from beyond the grave, Richard Simmons social media is
Speaker 1: now posting. Dicky absolutely wrote his own posts. He worked
Speaker 1: on them a week in advance, going over and over
Speaker 1: them to get the right message. He would often read
Speaker 1: them to Kathy and I beforehand. This is believed to
Speaker 1: be attributed to his brother Lenny. What he has not
Speaker 1: done was to text email or call Paulie Shore with anything,
Speaker 1: not even to wish him good luck. As Paulie has
Speaker 1: said many times, we'll see if this movie ever happens.
Speaker 1: THEO Vaughn excited for the NFL season, he posted on
Speaker 1: his socials AFC North is going to be Banana's this
Speaker 1: year best division. Joe Rogan talked about booking the podcast
Speaker 1: and said, I don't look at the numbers. I don't
Speaker 1: pay attention to how many downloads. It's not like feversly
Speaker 1: checking what's good and what's bad. I don't look at
Speaker 1: like what the retention is or when people drop out.
Speaker 1: I know that's up to them. My job is just
Speaker 1: to have an interesting conversation with people that I'm actually
Speaker 1: excited about talking to. That's my only job. So the
Speaker 1: way I book it, I completely book it based on
Speaker 1: my interests. I don't have a publicist that's like examining
Speaker 1: trends in this person's popularity. I don't do any of that.
Speaker 1: Rogan's special not getting good reviews. I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: good review of it yet. I think everyone kind of
Speaker 1: came in where I did, which was it was all right.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was Joe Rogan doing Joe Rogan's stuff
Speaker 1: nothing special. When did Joe know that the podcast had made?
Speaker 1: It said, I'll tell you when I realized it. It
Speaker 1: was like twenty eleven or twenty twelve. I was on
Speaker 1: stage at the Chicago Theater and I was doing comedy
Speaker 1: and I asked the audience I was gonna tell a
Speaker 1: story from the podcast, and I said, how many of
Speaker 1: you guys listen to the podcast? And it was just
Speaker 1: like yay, thirty seven hundred people cheering, and I was like, whoa.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that moment. Nicole Bayer was on Jesse
Speaker 1: Tyler Ferguson's podcast told an icky story. She said, I
Speaker 1: did shows in Appleton, Wisconsin, which to talk about in
Speaker 1: my special, and I really hated it there. The vibes
Speaker 1: effing sucked during my show. I had a white host,
Speaker 1: a black featurer and the crowds were so unruly. At
Speaker 1: one point, my black feature was on stage and a
Speaker 1: guy in the crowd was like, this is terrible smile.
Speaker 1: We can't see you. I was like, what the f
Speaker 1: After the audience member made the remark, Bayer walked down
Speaker 1: on the floor and looked at a server. I was like,
Speaker 1: you're not going to say anything, and the server was
Speaker 1: like what Bayer said. I refused to do the meet
Speaker 1: and greets, even though it was sold with the tickets.
Speaker 1: I told my agent, I'm just not meeting with these people.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's nice people in this crowd, but overall garbage,
Speaker 1: bad people, bad vibes. I couldn't believe that man said that.
Speaker 1: Sheng Wang said when he first stand up in college,
Speaker 1: he was basically doing an impersonation of Chris Rock because
Speaker 1: that was one of the only comedians he'd ever seen
Speaker 1: on TV. Everything changed when he saw Mitch Hedburg for
Speaker 1: the first time. Are we having the Hebburg guess sense?
Speaker 1: I hope so. I'm a big Mitch fan. I was
Speaker 1: thinking after I recorded yesterday's show, of all my various
Speaker 1: half ass impressions, the first one that I started doing
Speaker 1: on the podcast was half ass Mitch Hedburg. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna do it for you today, but that one will
Speaker 1: be coming back. Sheng Wang said. It changed my whole
Speaker 1: idea of what stand up could be because it suddenly
Speaker 1: felt like I could maybe do that. I could maybe
Speaker 1: just share those thoughts I have. I'm just a pretty
Speaker 1: low key person, so that's how it always was from
Speaker 1: the beginning. I'm not a fast talker. I was not
Speaker 1: quick with comebacks or anything like that. As for Shang
Speaker 1: Wang's now familiar look of long hair, he says, that
Speaker 1: is totally a pandemic accident. I wasn't playing on keeping it.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see how it would look when
Speaker 1: people kept saying nice things, and slowly it just felt
Speaker 1: like it did look like me now. He thought about
Speaker 1: cutting it before taping his special Ali Wang convinced him
Speaker 1: to keep it. Shang says, my whole career before this,
Speaker 1: I was trying to be as mundane and boring, as
Speaker 1: far from my physical appearance, to be as bland as possible.
Speaker 1: The idea was not to be distracting. That's the mindset
Speaker 1: I had, was to go on stage and let the
Speaker 1: joke speak for themselves and not have things that people
Speaker 1: can think about or judge me. On Vulture checked out
Speaker 1: that comics for Kamala the other night. Apparently Matt Friend
Speaker 1: was doing Howard Stern. He does a good Howard Stern,
Speaker 1: but it you know, it's a weird move. I grew
Speaker 1: up listening to Howard Stern. Howard went to series in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. So he's been candidly out of
Speaker 1: the spotlight. I mean, the media will write about him,
Speaker 1: but like no one under forty cares about Howard Stern
Speaker 1: at this point. You know. So it's a good impression
Speaker 1: by Matt, but like, who you going after Matt? Well,
Speaker 1: you might as well do John Wayne anyway. On comics
Speaker 1: for Kamala, Cecily Strong joked jd Vance is confusing because
Speaker 1: his rhetoric wants us to panic about immigrants, but his
Speaker 1: eyeliner wants us to panic at the disco. She then
Speaker 1: joked their speculation that Trump is unhappy with jd Vance
Speaker 1: at his thinking about getting rid of him, but he'd
Speaker 1: better hurry because it's been six weeks. I did go
Speaker 1: looking for Kamala Harris jokes to keep this fair, didn't
Speaker 1: find any. Send them my way, happy to do him.
Speaker 1: Colin Jost will be the new headliner at the Fringe, No,
Speaker 1: not that one, the Rochester Fringe Festival. He will replace
Speaker 1: Pete Davidson, who canceled his show. All tickets previously bought
Speaker 1: for Pete Davidson will automatically be honored for the Colin
Speaker 1: Joe show. Anyone who doesn't want to see Colin Jos
Speaker 1: can return them for a full refund. Colin Jost now
Speaker 1: playing the Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theater on Friday,
Speaker 1: September thirteenth. If you enjoy what I do here, one
Speaker 1: way to support the show is going to buy me
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Speaker 1: the National Donus chain and enjoy a large iced coffee
Speaker 1: with caramel and milk on you. I've been good. I
Speaker 1: haven't been buying anything other than coffee, just trying to
Speaker 1: get all that processed sugar out of my system. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to stay this fat. It's hard enough staying this fat,
Speaker 1: so I'm laying off be good. I'm having my breakfast shakes.
Speaker 1: I'm trying. And Cohen announced to her new special it's
Speaker 1: called Come for Me. I guess I could have put
Speaker 1: a different verbal spin on that. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: she intends it. I'm gonna take it that she wants
Speaker 1: us to go see her. You can interpret it however
Speaker 1: you want. Come for Me will be on beeps at
Speaker 1: approximately five pm Pacific on Thursday, Act over seventeenth. I
Speaker 1: guess the lawyers got involved and said, hey, you know
Speaker 1: you can't promise exactly five pm Pacific. You never know
Speaker 1: what happens with streaming and delays and internet. You know,
Speaker 1: we gotta be careful here. Part's stand up comedy port
Speaker 1: cabaret Come for Me is built as an openly glamorous,
Speaker 1: decidedly horny exploration of what it means to be a
Speaker 1: woman entering her thirties. So perhaps my verbal spin on
Speaker 1: the title is incorrect, but we all have the giggles.
Speaker 1: Nail Hannah Gatsby talk to the Guardian about the Edinburgh
Speaker 1: Fringe Festival, where Colin jos is not expected to perform.
Speaker 1: Anna said, in two thousand and six, I slept in
Speaker 1: a closet, performed a fewer than one hundred people across
Speaker 1: my whole time there, and got hit by a golf ball. Well,
Speaker 1: I also lost an obscene amount of money and cried
Speaker 1: three times in public. Then I came runner up in
Speaker 1: the Fringes. So you think you're funny competition, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't really factor in my memory list that year because
Speaker 1: success is not what defines the fringe experience. A failure does.
Speaker 1: The fringe might promise to make your showbiz dreams come true,
Speaker 1: but in reality it's more likely to give you scurvy.
Speaker 1: I returned to the Fringe with eight shows over the
Speaker 1: next decade. I wouldn't say experienced much of the way
Speaker 1: of success in the time, but my failure rate remained
Speaker 1: consistently high. In twenty eleven, I came off my bike
Speaker 1: and cracked my head open on some cobblestones. Another year,
Speaker 1: I committed to having a healthy fringe and swore off alcohol.
Speaker 1: I opted instead of propped myself up with an artificially
Speaker 1: sweetened caffeine product, and as a result, I enjoyed a
Speaker 1: month long jittering that looked very much like what those
Speaker 1: in ye old times would have described as a nervous breakdown.
Speaker 1: Then there was the year my pockets were literally too
Speaker 1: shallow and I lost my wallet, my replacement wallet, and
Speaker 1: the envelope I used to replace that. When I returned
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen with Nanette, I was not gambling. I
Speaker 1: knew I had a show that could not be ignored,
Speaker 1: and I was right. I don't think it's impervot lea
Speaker 1: to say that Nnette is one of the most successful
Speaker 1: stand up shows who ever go at the Fringe. I
Speaker 1: didn't even lose that much money. And that is your
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. See tomorrow.