Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark media people are really wigged about this Australian
Speaker 1: version of the Office. Calm down, everyone, Hi, I'm Johnny
Speaker 1: Mack with your daily comedy news. They're acting like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't believe they made an Australian version of the Office.
Speaker 1: Are you paying attention? There's a zillion versions. There's a
Speaker 1: version on Hulu that I watched that's Hindi. It's like
Speaker 1: half Hindi and half English and the dialogue goes back
Speaker 1: and forth and sometimes I read the captions and it's
Speaker 1: the Office. I get it. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know this. The Office, as great as it was,
Speaker 1: was originally a British series starring Ricky Gervay's so let's
Speaker 1: stop acting like we can't make a new one. Felicity
Speaker 1: Ward stars in The Australian Office and has told fans
Speaker 1: Ricky Gervaise personally approved her casting. Felicity said, Ricky Gervais
Speaker 1: has approved a female lead. He's very excited about a
Speaker 1: female lead. Just in case anyone is angry. Australian Office
Speaker 1: will be on Prime Video on the Australia and UK
Speaker 1: on October eighteenth. If you're in the US, You're not
Speaker 1: going to get it unless you have one of those VPNs.
Speaker 1: Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. She was asked
Speaker 1: how she's feeling about the show's released on October eighteenth,
Speaker 1: and said, pretty chill. Actually, English people and people love
Speaker 1: the office. They're like, hey, what do you want to do?
Speaker 1: That's fine. Felicity plays Hannah Howard, manager of the Sydney
Speaker 1: based box company Finley Cratick. She says, I did zero
Speaker 1: preparation because I read the script and I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is every annoying part of my personality.
Speaker 1: I've been preparing for this my whole life, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if this showrunner, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: she had seen me before, but it was like as
Speaker 1: if she got the tapes and then edited out the
Speaker 1: charm and the bits that people liked about me, and
Speaker 1: then just wrote a character. So it's just there. It's
Speaker 1: very strange playing a character where you're supposed to make
Speaker 1: people cringe. Jeff Dunham has a new Christmas Carol inspired
Speaker 1: comedy special coming out, This one also on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: This one you can watch in the States. It'll be
Speaker 1: out November nineteenth. It is titled Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up
Speaker 1: Holiday Special. In Jeff Dunham's Screwed Up In Jeff Dunham's
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm leaving that in. I did you hear that?
Speaker 1: All right? I misspoke and I said screwed up, and
Speaker 1: then I was going to do the pick up, and
Speaker 1: then I realized screwed up is funny. So I'm leaving
Speaker 1: all that in, including the explanation. This is where I
Speaker 1: start over. Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiering on
Speaker 1: another bust. Leave it in. I'm giving you a little
Speaker 1: behind the scenes here, all right. Take three, Jeff Dunhams
Speaker 1: screwed him. You'd swear I'm doing a bit. Take four
Speaker 1: Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiers November nineteenth. In
Speaker 1: Jeff Dunham's scrooged Up Holiday Special, Jeff Dunham recreates the
Speaker 1: beloved Charles Dickens Holiday story with his iconic characters. In
Speaker 1: the classic roles, Guess who's Scrooge? That's right, Walter. But
Speaker 1: when Jeff assigns Bubba j Peanut, Little Jeff and Ahmed
Speaker 1: to their thespian parts, they don't quite agree and the
Speaker 1: plan spins hilariously out of control during this stand up
Speaker 1: comedy special. It's Jeff Dunham's thirteenth comedy special, his second
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty four. Remember back on Valentine's Day he
Speaker 1: did I'm with Cupid, No Me neither. This is his
Speaker 1: third Christmas Team Special, following completely unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic
Speaker 1: Holiday Special from twenty twenty Great Title and Jeff Dunham's
Speaker 1: Very Special Christmas Special in two thousand and eight. Aperghetzi
Speaker 1: and his wife Laura are helping build an indoor practice
Speaker 1: facility for the Donaldson Christian Academy. They've donated a gift
Speaker 1: of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars with an additional
Speaker 1: matching gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
Speaker 1: help the DCA with the project. Nate is an alumni
Speaker 1: of DCA, graduating with the class of ninety seven. The
Speaker 1: DCA said, we're excited to announce the potential edition of
Speaker 1: an indoor practice facility. Facility allows to better serve all
Speaker 1: of our wildcats by creating a space that can be
Speaker 1: used for multiple purposes during all our seasons. The indoor
Speaker 1: space will feature competitive athletic facilities, state of the art
Speaker 1: strength training, multipurpose space for band and early learning, and
Speaker 1: new locker rooms and office spaces. Junior did some crowd
Speaker 1: work and bonded with an audience member over catching her
Speaker 1: boyfriend cheating on Facebook. He bonded by saying he was
Speaker 1: caught on AOL instant Messenger. The Stanford Daily says Wood's
Speaker 1: joke about AOL wasn't the only one that aged him,
Speaker 1: but he maintained relevance to the college student audience by
Speaker 1: highlighting the twisted nature of the textbook sale industry. Would
Speaker 1: have joked about a process called book buy back. The
Speaker 1: program allows students to sell used textbooks at the school
Speaker 1: bookstore or a quote unquote sketchy online company for around
Speaker 1: one tenth through the original price. Yeah, if you've got
Speaker 1: any kids in college, the textbook game is insane. I
Speaker 1: actually teach you college classes. I don't use a textbook.
Speaker 1: I use my own knowledge. I teach a radio class
Speaker 1: in a podcasting class so I can write the notes
Speaker 1: off the top of my head. Roy said, I know
Speaker 1: a scam when I see one. How much new Calculus
Speaker 1: came out in the past few months, Smile Politely dot
Speaker 1: Com caught up with the ever so serious Ari Condobolu.
Speaker 1: Smile asked Hari, what's it like being a smart comedian?
Speaker 1: Harry said, what it means is you get described as
Speaker 1: smart and brilliant and what did Time Out New York say,
Speaker 1: deals in commonly reasoned polemics. But the word funny isn't
Speaker 1: used nearly enough. The only thing I want to see
Speaker 1: is funny. He's really funny, hysterical. I'm a comedian at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. All the other things smart,
Speaker 1: well spoken, thoughtful, and I'll throw in ever so serious.
Speaker 1: I'd be part of it. Is your interview Persoda, dude,
Speaker 1: I'd like that to be the garnish around the funny.
Speaker 1: I do think, certainly there's a reason that I bring
Speaker 1: an NPR audience. I use big words and reference things
Speaker 1: that might not be in pop culture and maybe more
Speaker 1: about world affairs and about historical things, while still attempting
Speaker 1: to be relatable to any mainstream audience. I guess that's
Speaker 1: what it means, or maybe I just wear glasses. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Smile asked him about his show Totally Biased
Speaker 1: already said, first of all, it's a show. It's been
Speaker 1: canceled since twenty thirteen. To the fact that it still
Speaker 1: gets its flowers, it's really nice. I wish I got more.
Speaker 1: I feel like the fact that the clips aren't readily
Speaker 1: available online. When FX bowl the clips after the show
Speaker 1: got canceled, I felt that was a really bad decision.
Speaker 1: They put the episodes up. The episodes aren't going to
Speaker 1: be evergreen, but some of the clips will be. It's
Speaker 1: just annoying watch things. It'd be like, yeah, we cover
Speaker 1: this a decade ago, and that's the same angle we took,
Speaker 1: and there's no record of it. I've seen things since
Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, that's literally almost verbatim. When I
Speaker 1: said three years later the same joke. It taught me
Speaker 1: that there were more people appreciated the point of view
Speaker 1: that I had, that Camal had, that the voice of
Speaker 1: the show had. It made me feel like maybe I
Speaker 1: wasn't out on a limb the same way I thought
Speaker 1: it was at the same time, and also taught me
Speaker 1: that we were still on the cutting edge because the
Speaker 1: stuff we were talking about in twenty twelve about trans
Speaker 1: rights and police brutality and the angles we took then
Speaker 1: became mainstream angles a few years later, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you even see late night shows covering those issues that
Speaker 1: started with us. That a Pooh documentary I did comes
Speaker 1: from totally biased. I was thinking of a pool uh
Speaker 1: last week or the week before, and I was watching
Speaker 1: the quote unquote serious finale of The Simpsons, and I
Speaker 1: don't think up Poo appeared in it at all, Like
Speaker 1: not even in the background or in the audience. Maybe
Speaker 1: I just missed him, or I said, that's the thing
Speaker 1: that spurred me to write a piece about it. Things
Speaker 1: that a community know where feel have been discussed for
Speaker 1: years are new when you've been ignored by mainstream society.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, all our old stuff becomes
Speaker 1: new to everybody else. It helped me calibrate where we
Speaker 1: were as a society and perform in real time. When
Speaker 1: you're doing stand up, you're doing it in real time,
Speaker 1: but you're also releasing things of the masses. It's every
Speaker 1: few years in a special or set. It's totally biased.
Speaker 1: Every night, we kind of got a sense of where
Speaker 1: people were. People still bring up that spelling bee thing
Speaker 1: I did, or the Apu thing, or how I covered
Speaker 1: Columbus Day. Stuff that was forever go to me, and
Speaker 1: somehow it's still relevant people. It also says that the
Speaker 1: stuff we were doing was ahead of its time. And
Speaker 1: that is your comedy news for today. If you would
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Speaker 1: I know it's October, believe me. I know, but I
Speaker 1: also know Christmas moves the downloads. Yeah, all right, see
Speaker 1: tomorrow