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Speaker 1: Caloroga Shark Media.

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Speaker 2: Hey, their Happy Derby Day. I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians

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and the comedy industry. Catherine Blandford is an amy she'd

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keep an eye on. She's been to the Derby. She said.

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I was in college and took my roommate to the

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Derby with me. She'd never been to Kentucky. I was like,

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porta potty racist tradition. I forgot to tell her it's illegal.

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She gets to the end and she's dancing and celebrating

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and people are cheering and the cops are waiting for

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her to get down. I was hiding, and she was like,

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I'm a team mom, It's my first night out. She

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went to the drunk tank for the rest of the Derby.

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Ha Lanford started performing comedy at the University of South Carolina.

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She says, I've done a competition for a fraternity when

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I was in college. It was like a pageant. You

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had to do a talent portion. I wrote a sketch

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like I was Chelsea Handler. That's when her show Chelsea

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Lately was big. I roasted a bunch of frat guys

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and then did an interview with the pledge from their fraternities,

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Charlie Sheen. Obviously we won and I kinda had the bug.

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She hit it big in twenty twenty two when a

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clip of her joking about her parents being cousins went viral.

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David Spade saw the clip and they connected. Blandford started

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opening for Spade. That lasted two years. She started headlining

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on her own, moved to La She's a regular at

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the Improv and the Laugh Factory. She plans to record

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two specials this year. Interesting Maximini was asked by the

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Hollywood reporter do you think the rulers of Iran will

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ever loosen their grip? Max says, I think so, and

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it has I think of it as water and oil.

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The ideology hasn't been able to penetrate a culture that

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people there have had in their DNA for centuries, go

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back to the attacks of the Mongols, to the Arabs,

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to the Greeks and so on. These different ideologies and

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invasions have affected the country and the people in the culture,

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but the foundation cannot be destroyed. The minute young Iranians

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get an opportunity to show themselves. I think the world

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will see a very friendly, kind and enthusiastic nation who

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likes to smile. Look, despite forty seven years of this

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Islamic republic mentality, every household still has their parties and gatherings.

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They have art shows and man, the music they listen to.

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They're so open minded. You have social media and the

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younger generation of moderates. Over time, I think it's going

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to de escalate. When I was in Iran, you weren't

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allowed to have a cassette tape and you'd get arrested

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for listening to music. Today, the same regime allows concerts,

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obviously with a lot of guidelines, but the progression has happened.

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It's inevitable. Max says, I never really thought of the

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opportunity to do comedy in Iran. But when I came

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back to America, that true sense of freedom that I

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can do all these things I could have never done

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in Iran was the spark. When I started college, I

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decided to become a theater major and pursue acting in comedy.

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I was very funny when I did my improv with

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my classmates. I discovered stand up comedy through that. In

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the last four or five years, a lot of young

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stand up comedians have popped in Iran. They're doing open mics,

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and they have their little comedy cafes that didn't previously

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exist in Iran. I feel like me hanging in there

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and doing stand up and four Sea is going to

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pave the way for Irunian comedians down the line to

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be able to tour and build from there. Right Max,

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what do you think he got popular? He said, For

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many years, I was disappointed that the industry was not

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recognizing my talent. No casting director, producer director, no projects,

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no comedy festivals. But I'm one of the lucky people,

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and that social media gave me the opportunity to let

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the people decide who they like. The Cavalier Daily went

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to go see Hannibal Burris. Charlottesville comedian Chris Allen was

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the opener we saw. At the end of his sets,

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Chris Allen offered a heartwarming introduction for Hannibal Burris, calling

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him a personal inspiration who proved that off kilter black

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comedians could succeed in the industry. Hannibal grabbed the mic

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and jokingly took offense to being called weird by his opener.

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Hannibal started with some political comedy Send your letters to

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Hannibal Burris, who lamented that America would be in much

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better shape if only Donald Trump's television show The Apprentice

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had been renewed for another season before his first presidential campaign.

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Hannibal did some more topical jokes about the economy and

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the war in Iran and did an hour and a

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half Wow. This is different to keep things fresh throughout

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the set, different for Hannibal. I've seen other comedians do this.

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Hannibal used to screen to the back of the stage

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to show funny text messages he received from his friends,

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and brief video clips that amplify the impact of certain

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jokes with meme like outbursts were told. The audio visual

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elements were you sparingly until the finale. After stepping off

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stage for a moment, Burris returned to an act a

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scenario in which a rap song he wrote called the

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Tallest Person at This Mexican Party became his most popular

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contribution to society. Seems like it was a good show.

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Jeff Dunham talked about his new television show on Discovery,

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The Cars that Drove Us. This from the folks that

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made the toys that made us. In the movies that

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made us. Jeff Dunham and developed his love of cars

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from growing up on hot wheels. Remember hot wheels, fellow oldies,

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we were hot wheels. Person are a matchbox guy. I

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was a matchbox guy. I never really liked the hot

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wheels matchbox bleeding cool as Jeff. If you guys get

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another season, do you know what cars? Jeff said, not

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a clue. What I loved about this one was it

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with seven great cars. And then in the eighth episode

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we did a call It's called the factory. It was

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some of the goofy things that car designers put in

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the vehicles. So we have an idea they're not be

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there's still a cars. And if you pointed a gun

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at me right now and said tell me which ones

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they are, I couldn't do it because I can't remember

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since we've gone through so many ideas. But I like

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the idea and a season of having one episode that's

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an outlier, kind of a weird one. Switching to comedy,

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Jeff Dunham, do you have to temper your act? You know,

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times are changing, tastes or changing, Jeff said, timings everything.

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I wouldn't want to be a new comic coming up

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right now, trying to do stand up comedy because it's

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been a long time since I did a show to

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a comedy club. But as I understand it now, especially

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out here in Hollywood, the audiences can be brutal if

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you say anything that's somewhat too left or two right,

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and you will get nailed, nailed, nailed by the audience.

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I laugh when I talk to my daughter who's in

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college in California, and she cancels me about three times

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a day. Now, if you listen to me every day,

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there's two thousand episodes, you kind of get what my

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vibe is. Right, Like I was explaining to her about

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Season one of Survivor. I bought this is all true.

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I bought the DVDs of season one of Survivor. Fellow oldies,

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did you watch Season one of Survivor? Remember Root the

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old Guy. There's a clip you can go on YouTube

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because I sent this to my daughter where one of

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the contestants, Rich is gay. But twenty five years ago,

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people are like quizzing him, like, so is it okay

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to say that you're homosexual? And Rich is like, yeah,

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I'm homosexual. Let me pull up the clips. So you

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don't cancel me. Here's Richard Hatch explaining, it's okay, guys.

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Speaker 1: You're not just homosexual. I know gay guys don't like

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to be called that because you're not homosexual. You're gay.

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You know you're I'm homosexual. Do we not like to

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be called?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Because it just makes no If you classify that, it's

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own classifying people's sexual lifestyle. Right, and well, there is

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a lifestyle associated with being gay, but it's not something

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you can't say I decided to be gay. But it's

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been interesting in this new environment to kind of decide

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when to say what about yourselves?

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Speaker 2: I think there's only one person you got worried about.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not worry about it at all. As people

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get to know me, they learn who I am, and

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then eventually over time find out I'm gay. I've never

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once in my life encountered prejudice based on my being

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homosexual anyway.

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Speaker 2: So I want to watch a Survivor one with my

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daughter just to watch her freak out and cancel me

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for liking a show. Twenty five years ago, I Digress.

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Jeff Denham said audiences can be brutal, and if you

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say anything that's somewhat too left or to right, you

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will get nailed by the audience. They don't like it.

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When all this business started rumling a few years ago,

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as at a point in my career where there are

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two different ways you can go to comedy club. You're

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either paying money just to go to the club and

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you know who's going to be there, you don't care,

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just want a night off, or you're paying a little

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bit more to specifically see a particular person. That's a

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little bit easier because the audience who pay to see you,

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most of them know what to expect. When I was

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doing theaters and arenas, it was eighty five to ninety

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percent already my crowd. They already loved Acamed the Dead

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terrorist Jose Halapino. Want a stick. If I came about

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those characters right now, there's no way they would work.

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As a comic. You must, as you say, temper things,

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or at least I'm not gonna use the word temper.

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I'm going to show you how I present the comedy.

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And because I do it as a ventrill quist, I

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have a little bit of a huge advantage over the

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other comics because I can point and counterpoint the dummy

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can make a joke and I can argue with him,

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and I can say, ah, that's not okay. So it's

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a conversation, a debate. I like this a lot. The

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true ingredients of comedy are conflict and tension. I can

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create that on stage myself, and by the time I'm

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finished with whatever I'm talking about, whatever the subject is,

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the audience walks away going, I really don't know what

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he thinks or what he believes. Friend of the Show, Ismo,

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remember he was on. He was a guest. He has

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teamed up with a Finland based production house they're pushing

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the same ambition to build comedy of the Travels internationally

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while staying true to its roots. Not entirely sure what

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they're up to, but I'm behind it because he's a

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recently played the Milwaukee Film Festival, filmmaker Neil Berkeley said,

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so many comedians these days have put her on the

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Mount Rushmore of the Greatest of all Time with Richard

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Pryor and Rodney Dangerfield. She's that revered in this industry.

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I'm so tempted to bog down on a Mount Rushimore

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of comedy that has Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield and Maria Bamford.

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That's not too bashed Maria Bamford. But you only get

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that weekend goes to a thousand seed theater. She has

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they can empathize with. The film looks at Maria's creative process,

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to show how Maria's mental health struggles and trauma have

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informed her comedy. And that is your comedy news for today.

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I will see tomorrow.