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<v Speaker 1>Callaroga Shark Media. Happy Saturday. I'm Johnny Mack with your

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<v Speaker 1>daily comedy news. You know what Arizon Saturday Saturday Night Live.

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<v Speaker 1>It had been on a hot streak six point nine

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<v Speaker 1>million viewers watched John mulaney host, but last week when

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<v Speaker 1>Bill Burr bombed Oh, I said that on threads and

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<v Speaker 1>people got very upset with me. They're like, in Bob,

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<v Speaker 1>you just didn't kill fine. Anyway, people didn't watch it,

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<v Speaker 1>only four point four to two million. That is disappointing

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<v Speaker 1>coming off the election, isn't it. Charlie XCX doubles up

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<v Speaker 1>tonight as both a host and musical performance guest. She

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<v Speaker 1>will perform music when not hosting. John mullaney auditioned for

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<v Speaker 1>Saturday Night Live before the two thousand and eight nine season,

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<v Speaker 1>but didn't make the cast and got hired as a writer.

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<v Speaker 1>We know this from the GQ profile of John Mullaney.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been talking about and I have shared with you

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<v Speaker 1>in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

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<v Speaker 1>Balani spent four seasons at SNL. His frequent writing partner,

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<v Speaker 1>Simon Rich said, I remember very distinctly thinking, I really

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<v Speaker 1>really hope that I get to write with this person.

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<v Speaker 1>Part of his genius is his precision and his absolute

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<v Speaker 1>mastery of language. You never want to paraphrase a Malaney

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<v Speaker 1>joke because they're so perfectly constructed and crystalline. If you

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<v Speaker 1>don't get it word perfect, you're not doing it justice.

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<v Speaker 1>We're like the post office yea haye es. But you

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<v Speaker 1>love us. At the end of the day, you go, look,

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<v Speaker 1>they worked hard and got it done, but you've grown

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<v Speaker 1>at our existence. I found out I'll never need another

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<v Speaker 1>topic to talk about. It's like our World War two.

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<v Speaker 1>At any event, any dinner I go to anywhere in

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<v Speaker 1>the world, this look comes into their eyes. If you're

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<v Speaker 1>saying I'm an outlaw, Like, yeah, before this, I was

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<v Speaker 1>a cowboy. Rich estimates that he and Malaney wrote two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty sketches, including frequently working on the host monologue.

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<v Speaker 1>On the theory it was one thing that wouldn't be cut.

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<v Speaker 1>Jenny Slat appeared on Saturday Night Live. I've not brought

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<v Speaker 1>back for a second season. Slade said, I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>so cool that I touched that dream. I'm proud of myself.

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<v Speaker 1>It's almost magical in this weird way to think about it.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of weird rewards that come from situations

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<v Speaker 1>that we might think are more shadowy. One of the

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<v Speaker 1>big rewards a belief in the long game, a belief

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<v Speaker 1>in many, many options. It's really important to believe that

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<v Speaker 1>there's like, actually twenty really cool, weird secret doors rather

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<v Speaker 1>than one big, golden ornate legendary door. If I hadn't

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<v Speaker 1>had that experience at the start of my career, I

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't have understood how much is really up to me

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<v Speaker 1>cracked ads. As recently scrapped cast member Chloe Troes pointed

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<v Speaker 1>out last month, the names on the list of fired

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<v Speaker 1>SNL cast members is perhaps even more impressive than the

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<v Speaker 1>list of performers who were permitted to stay. And they write,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not like anyone would have cast Joe Piscopo in

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<v Speaker 1>uncut Gems. I would watch that, And there are no

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<v Speaker 1>billion dollar Marvel movies starring Jim Brewer as iron Man. Right.

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<v Speaker 1>Victoria Jackson remember her I bumped the story for a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks now, just there's been a lot to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about. But while we're in SNL mode, she talked

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<v Speaker 1>about her longtime beef with Alec Baldwin. The attention getting headline.

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<v Speaker 1>Apparently Alec Baldwin called Victoria Jackson's breast's garbage cans. Jackson

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<v Speaker 1>was on the Dana Carvey David Spade podcast. Victoria's said

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<v Speaker 1>we got to talk about Alec Baldwin because he was

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<v Speaker 1>on Fly on the Wall and he said my breast

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<v Speaker 1>looked like garbage cans. Spaden Carvey asked her what he

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<v Speaker 1>meant by that, and she said, that's what I want

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<v Speaker 1>to know. Apparently, Baldwin had said, the only time I

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<v Speaker 1>ever cracked was when we did SNL. Victoria Jackson's in

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<v Speaker 1>there and they have her all dressed and her boobs

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<v Speaker 1>are like two garbage cans sticking in your face. Spaden

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<v Speaker 1>Carvey theorized they may have been complimenting her breast size.

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<v Speaker 1>Jackson disagreed. She also took issue with Xena Carvey telling

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<v Speaker 1>Alec Baldwin in the episode that Jackson was trying not

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<v Speaker 1>to fall in love with him. Jackson said, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>remember that way. She believes Baldwin took issue with what

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<v Speaker 1>she wrote about him in her twenty twelve book is

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<v Speaker 1>My Bow Too Big? An anecdote in nineteen ninety, Alec

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<v Speaker 1>was sitting next to me on the set and he

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<v Speaker 1>asked me why my boobs were so big. That's rude

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<v Speaker 1>and it's caustic and it's inappropriate. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>he was flirting with me or he's being mean. It

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<v Speaker 1>was kind of a mixture, but I think he heard

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<v Speaker 1>about the book and ever since, Alex's been mean to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Jackson thinks Baldwin probably targeted her because our political views

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<v Speaker 1>are opposite. And I've also said that when he does

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<v Speaker 1>an impression of Trump, he is hatred side of him.

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<v Speaker 1>So they probably read that Paul Riser's got a special

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<v Speaker 1>coming out this week? Is it this week or next week?

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<v Speaker 1>Because today Saturday, the nineteenth, I guess that's this week now,

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<v Speaker 1>I know it's the weekend, right, Where does the week

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<v Speaker 1>not start tomorrow? Who cares? John? Paul Riser has a

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<v Speaker 1>special coming out soon and he tell the Irish Times.

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<v Speaker 1>I started a little ahead of the boom. It was

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<v Speaker 1>in the late seventies when I was in college. There

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<v Speaker 1>were ready people who are on TV, who had big

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<v Speaker 1>hit TV shows an year earlier. They were unknown. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I remember Freddy Prinz, what a shooting star. They came

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<v Speaker 1>out of those clubs. The people who open these comedy

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<v Speaker 1>clubs realized there was an easy way to make money.

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<v Speaker 1>They just get a brick wall and a microphone and

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<v Speaker 1>can charge people twenty dollars to watch unknowns. We all

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<v Speaker 1>flocked to it. I would have aspired to be a

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<v Speaker 1>comic if that path hadn't been laid out. He talked

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<v Speaker 1>about being in Ireland and said, we were there in

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<v Speaker 1>the height of summer. I didn't realize how late it stays. Light.

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<v Speaker 1>Would come home from work at seven and then would say,

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<v Speaker 1>let's go to the pub. Would sit with our guinness

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<v Speaker 1>or two guinnesses and chatting with people and petting dogs.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't have that in New York. It's a bar culture,

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<v Speaker 1>not pub culture. In Ireland, they're not watching the ballgame

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<v Speaker 1>or CNN. They're talking us. The threeboot of Mad About You,

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<v Speaker 1>where Paul and Jamie were empty nesters, people said, why'd

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<v Speaker 1>you break up? They're upset. We showed them that they

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<v Speaker 1>separated for a bit because all marriages have bumps, but

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<v Speaker 1>they ended up happily forever after and after a few

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<v Speaker 1>years a whole bunch of shows were rebooting. We had

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<v Speaker 1>that conversation. We thought, what story do they tell? We

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<v Speaker 1>can't play newlyweds anymore. That ship has sailed. But we realized,

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<v Speaker 1>if our kid has grown up, then these two idiots

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<v Speaker 1>are all alone again, just like when the show started.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad we did it. We had a great time.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Let's take a look at the comedy festivals

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<v Speaker 1>for today. It's the final day of the Flyover Comedy

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<v Speaker 1>Festival out Saint Louis Way, and again I like their website.

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<v Speaker 1>Tonight at eight o'clock the Sclar Brothers a smaller show

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<v Speaker 1>at eight o'clock, an improv show called help Me I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Drowning and Idiot Bitch. I kind of like that title.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no, here's one at ten o'clock called S Show,

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<v Speaker 1>and I can't tell you what the S stands for,

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<v Speaker 1>but whatever your guess is, you're right. And switching over

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<v Speaker 1>to the New York Comedy Festival Saturday night in the

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<v Speaker 1>Big City. I'm gonna have tons of headliners, right, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what's going on this year. They don't

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<v Speaker 1>have the names I've had in the past. I'm scrolling down.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll read you the bigger names. I'm nine shows in yet,

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<v Speaker 1>and I haven't seen anybody. You've probably heard of. If

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<v Speaker 1>you've heard of Bill Maher the WTF Tour. That's what

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<v Speaker 1>you're calling your tour? Are you just like completely unaware

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<v Speaker 1>that Mark Maren has been calling his thing WTF for

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<v Speaker 1>twenty years. Bill Maher's the WTF Tour. I'd love to

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<v Speaker 1>hear Marin Steak on that. That's at the Beacon at

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<v Speaker 1>seven o'clock. I mean, it's not like Maren owns WTF,

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<v Speaker 1>but like, come on, man, you're a comedian, you know

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<v Speaker 1>Mark Maren is WTF. Matt McCusker is at Town Hall

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<v Speaker 1>at seven o'clock. Good name here, Time to kill a

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<v Speaker 1>sketch comedy show at seven o'clock. Rachel Feinstein at the

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<v Speaker 1>Bell House at seven thirty. Ali Colbert's She's on the Rise.

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<v Speaker 1>Check her out to Union Hall seven thirty. Christian Finnegan

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<v Speaker 1>remember him, You might remember his face from A Chappelle's

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<v Speaker 1>show seven thirty at Q E D. I thought he

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<v Speaker 1>was going to have a much bigger career than he

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<v Speaker 1>has had. The stepfathers U see b At ten o'clock.

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<v Speaker 1>Jason Zinnemann had some things to say about That'll talk

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<v Speaker 1>about that in a minute. Don't Tell Comedy at ten

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<v Speaker 1>o'clock at location TBD and that's it. I mean, there

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<v Speaker 1>are other shows, but those are your big names. On

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<v Speaker 1>a Saturday, Bill Maher on the second Saturday at the festival,

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<v Speaker 1>this thing has taking a step down. No offense, but

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<v Speaker 1>I mean there was a time when there were just

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<v Speaker 1>huge names playing the festival. Jason is in him in

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<v Speaker 1>front of the show, and he writes for The New

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<v Speaker 1>York Times he recommends these Stepfathers at UCB, writes if

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<v Speaker 1>you're looking for something other than stand up. The Stepfathers

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<v Speaker 1>were one of the best improv groups in the city

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<v Speaker 1>for many years, with a pack weekly show at UCB.

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<v Speaker 1>Then the organization shut down. It's returned this year in

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<v Speaker 1>an attractive new space on East fourteenth and this is

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<v Speaker 1>a good chance to see how the season troop ad

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