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Speaker 1: Callaroga shock media. I don't know if you heard Steven

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Golbert Show is coming to an end. Soun hello. I'm

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Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Friend of the show,

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Jason Ziddiman writes for The New York Times. Jason asks

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the question, what do we lose when the Late Show

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goes away? Jason writes, Ever since Bette Miller made Johnny

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Carson sniffle with a farewell song, I have that on VHS.

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It's upstairs somewhere the VHS's label Johnny's Last Jam, which

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is what TV Guide called it on their cover that week.

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Ever since Bett Miller made Johnny Carson sniffle with a

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farewell song, the long emotional goodbye has become its own

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late night tradition, clowing to some moving to others. It's

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enough of a recognizable trope to be a reminder that

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with CBS's cancelation of The Late Show, we're losing not

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just Stephen Colbert, but also an institution. You know, now

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that this thing is right in front of us, it

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really is weird that this show's just going away. I mean,

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Dave up on it the other day, gave it a

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little bit of legacy, Like, like, I never really felt

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like the Late Show had the weight of the Tonight Show.

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But when I saw the two hosts together, and then

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you imagine a future where Colbert hosts another five, ten, fifteen,

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twenty years, and then someone else takes it over. I

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mean it was thirty years. It's weird that that's gonna

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be on, and that that just putting on Byron Allen,

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which somehow just feels worse than if they like completely

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punted and were like, Eh, we're just gonna run NCIS reruns.

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I digress. Zenman points out, believe it or not, the

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Late Show will been on the air longer than the

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coarsin version of the Tonight Show. It's giving ahead Zenmun rights.

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When Conan O'Brien quit The Tonight Show on twenty ten,

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Jerry Seinfeld poked fun at the idea of late night tradition.

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Jerry told Bill Carter, how do you not get that

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this whole thing is phony? There's no institution to offend

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Zinneman rights. I've long been sympathetic to Seinfeld's position, Comically

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exaggerated as it may have been. A healthy art form

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requires dynamism and new blood. No institution ever made me laugh,

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And yet as the Late Show approaches its end, I

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find myself as sentimental as the guest singing melancholy melodies.

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What exactly are we losing with the end of the

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Late Show? Jason takes us back to the origin of

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the Late Show. If you listen to me every day,

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you're probably familiar with the story of Letterman and Leno.

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Jason wrights fairly. With the diminished state of late night

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in today's fragmented culture, it might be hard to understand

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the passion behind this competition between men in suits joking

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at desks. But make no mistake, it was the Kendrick

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Lamar Drake drum of its day. Late night host to

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find sensibilities inspired toxic fandoms. Take me Jason for example,

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Back then, on the cusp of college, I assumed anyone

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who preferred leto was not worth knowing. Yeah, I mean

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I was heavy team Letterman and Boy. When Day was

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on at eleven thirty that first year, I watched it,

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and then I don't know if I watched any of

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the remainder I've spoke about this before. It just became

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establishment Letterman and I like the counterculture Letterman at twelve thirty.

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Be careful what you wish for. I always wish the

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show had been on earlier. Oh, as you know, I

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don't read these things ahead. I like to react. Jason wrote,

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the Late Show meant an earlier to times, a lot

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for Letterman, but it signaled something broader than that, a test,

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a public taste, a chance for justice to be served,

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a cause to get behind. Jason talked about going to

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see Letterman back in the NBC days. The line outside

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had the feel of a tailor Swift concert. The crowd

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responded to every joke. At Fever Pitch, I was surrounded

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by fellow true believers. Steven Colbert is a very different

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performer from Letterman, but when he got the job as

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Letterman's successor at The Late Show, it represented a kind

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of continuity. Since it was built in opposition to its

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NBC rival, The Late Show was both an institution and

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anti institutional. Colbert kept that dual spirit alive. The most

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obvious way Late Show remained counterprogramming involved current events, while

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the Tonight Show, led by Jimmy Fallon since twenty fourteen,

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has aimed for light a political fair. Colbert has responded

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to our moment by becoming forceful in his comic attacks

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on President Trump. Talk show hosts like Letterman have always

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made fun of presidents, network executives' bosses, something Colbert became

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too portisan and predictable to be funny, But even if true,

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this was an attempt to not just engage with our

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politicized era, but also to fill the role of topical hosts.

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In a recent GQ interview, Obert said he was more

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conservative than people think. Jason says, I believe him all

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all very sad time does more Sean though. Nicki Glazer

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will be the headliner at this year's Gator Growl. This

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announced by the University of Florida. Gator Growl is the

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school's annual student run event. So in the span of

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a week here we've gone from Nicki Glazer's soft campaigning

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to host the Oscars to hosting the Gator Growl. The

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event is Friday, Actober ninth. Students can get early access

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to tickets beginning today. Chelsea Handler is not holding back

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when it comes to modern romance. She was on Howie

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Mandel's podcast. She said it's very hard in today's world

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to meet straight guys that have their stuff together. Something's wrong.

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I don't know what's wrong. I think with dating apps

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and social media, there's just so much abundance and so

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much choice that nobody really feels like they have to

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lock it in. They could swipe through fifty women a day,

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so they're not making the effort that people used to

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make to date. Meanwhile, Handler herself said, I wouldn't say

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I'm in a relationship. I would say I'm dabbling in

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different areas of my life. I don't like to be

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tethered to one person. You may recall ten seconds ago

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I told you Chelsea was commenting on men's swapping through

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fifty pictures in one day. Chelsea said, I love the

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idea that I don't have to check in with anybody

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about anything I do. I don't have to consider or

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consult with anyone if I want to get on a

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plane and go to Paris, which I'll do at a moment's notice.

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Marcelo hernane has got a big fluff piece in GQ

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titled How Marcello Hernanez Became the Boy Prince of Comedy. Guys,

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is Marcelo Hernandez the boy Prince of comedy? Clearly, the

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answer is no, What are we basing that on that

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he does Domingo. Come on, stop. Keenan Thompson describes Marcelo

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Hernandez and says he's just a very bright soul, loves

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to laugh and loves to find what's funny about each laugh.

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He likes not only laughing, but finding a formula to

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what's making us all laugh. I'd say, oh, this guy

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serious about comedy. Well, the formula is he does Domingo

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and characters very similar to Domingo. They point out he

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is speaking voices far less theatrical, his Latino accent much

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more faint than the way he often talks in his comedy.

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He says he's in a circles keeping him humble. My

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friends are not like every Sunday being like, dude, you

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killed it last night. Once in a while you get that.

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But that's nicer than anything, but it motivates the work

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a little bit too. Wow. I didn't realize he's been

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on the show for four seasons now and the boy

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Prince of comedy has done what again in four seasons.

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Ashley Pitty and Jane Wickline are more memorable. Come on, guys.

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He gets asked for a lot of selfies and says,

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the only thing worse than taking pictures is when no

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one wants one. Now, GQ says, being around Hernandez a

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clearest day extrovert feels like hanging out with the Tasmanian

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Devil if Taz had more polished comedic chops Stavarro's Hawkius

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just so happens to walk by, s ays GQ, and

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Hernanez frantically waves him down. When Halkius recognizes this isn't

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some crazy fan of his podcast, but rather fellow comedian

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Stavarro stops Spideriff for a little bit. He's asked about

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being a heart throb, and he says, how do I

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feel about being a heart throb? Grateful Late Nighter had

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some odds on who may leave and who may return

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for SNL season fifty two. They say, most likely to depart,

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Cam Patterson odds of returning minus four hundred. Most likely

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to return, Ashley Padilla. I think everybody agrees she was

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season one's MVP. And this reminds me because someone else

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pointed this out. You know who was on this season,

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bow and Yang? Remember bow Anden Yang walked around a

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Christmas time to go do something else? How's that going?

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John McGinley has a pitch for Scrubs Season eleven slash two.

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By the way, we've learned that there will be ten

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episodes in the upcoming season. McGinley said, I think it'd

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be awesome in the revival of Scrubs. It'll never happen

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because we're up in Vancouver. But if Hugh Jackman came

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and was sick and he had to come to the

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hospital and Doctor Cox would be like, what the f

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would be really good. Doctor Cox has become sick and

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season ten, Cox gets a kidney problem, so he's going

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to be a patient for a while. Now, what would

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be genius is if Hugh Jackman was in a bed

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next to him in the hospital and they were just

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chirping away. McGinley explained why doctor Cox hates Hugh Jackman.

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It all comes from the writer of the show, Bill Lawrence,

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is jealous because Hugh Jackman is a great actor. He's

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a great singer, he's a great dancer. He does Broadway musicals,

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he does Marvel, he does everything, and Bill Lawrence is

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jealous of him. So we made doctor Cox jealous of that.

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That's where it comes from. I've never met Hugh Jackman.

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By all accounts, he's the nice guy on the planet.

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He's very handsome, but I'm not jealous of you. That's

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all Bill Lawrence and Bill Lawrence had fun with that.

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Cox wonders about the new dynamic between his character and

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episode of the new season, the last thing on earth

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that doctor Cox wants is to expose JD to what

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he doesn't want to drag JD down with him until

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he realizes he's so scared and us to tell JD

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for the first time in ten years, I need you

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and to me, it's the best episode we ever did,

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next to one. Brendan Frascher came on. We were all

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crying on the set and the camera picked it all up.

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It's very moving and I didn't see that one coming.

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He explained how his return happened. They called me because

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I was doing the Steve Carell Show and currently with

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what those guys were in Vancouver shooting and I was

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in Burbank and Zach called and I said, I have

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a great story idea, and I'm like, what because in

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the first episode, I give Zack the hospital, I make

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him the new chief of medicine. So I didn't know

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McGinley says his idea for Cox's return was very different.

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I thought, what if we make Cox the worst patient

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in the history of patience, you know, somebody who just

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wants to micromanage everything. But Zach said, even better, let's

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make them really sick and scared. That was great. I

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think my job with Zach in that episode, and I'll

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say to him a couple of times, is to protect

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him from what's going on with me. I want to

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protect you from this. This isn't your journey, this is

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my descent to this malady. That's really rich to say

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to somebody. I mean, we mostly only say that to

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who our best friends or people in our families. We

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could try, but it's a big thing to try and

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protect someone. And so for Cox repeatedly in that episode

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saying I'm trying to protect you from this, that's as

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good as it gets. And that is your comedy news

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for today, We'll see you tomorrow.