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Speaker 1: Kalaroga Shark Media.

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Speaker 2: Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news

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and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the

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comedy industry. I said, it's the algorithm loves. I am

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excited for Just for Laughs, Montreal, twenty twenty six. As

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soon as I got this press release, I was reaching

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out to them. They must have thought I was insane.

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Like ninety seconds later, they're getting emails from a crazy

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person going hey, hey, can we be friends? Can I

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get some guests? I can't wait for this. Jerry Seinfeld

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and weird Al Yankovic are your headliners for Just for Laughs, Montreal,

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twenty twenty six. The subheater interesting phrasing. YouTuber Gabriel Fluffay Iglesias,

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I'm not sure I think of him as a YouTuber,

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but okay. Train Wreck actor Mike Birbiglia, same note. Otsko

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at Kotska and Jerry d. Will mc gotala showcases. The

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presser tells us Seinfeld first performed at JFL in nineteen

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eighty five. My French not so good, so I will

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anglicize everything. Jerry will perform at the play State Arts.

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I'm sure that's how it's pronounced. On July twenty third,

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weird Al, who first played Montreal JFL in nineteen ninety,

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will do a solo show for the weird Al Yankovic

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Bigger and Weirder Tour for free. That's right, I said,

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for free at the outdoor Place de Festivals. That's amazing.

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I don't know how they're gonna handle the crowd there.

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That's good. Like it's a reasonably big space, but I

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would imagine a free weird Al concert is going to

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pack the place. JFL organizers have also announced the first

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wave of hosts for twice nightly Galas, including again YouTube

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star Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias, Mike Beriglia, ots Goold Katska and

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Jerry d star of Animal Control. Some other folks already

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announced Jordan Jensen, Ron Funches, Sulton, Kasas, Jack Lenovak, more

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to come. I'm excited for that. The La Times caught

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up with Ari Shaffir. The season of The End is out,

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available for purchase through YMH two. The End has been

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called several things over the years. You may know what

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it's best known name. This is not happening. The lineup

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on the new season, Tom Sigora, Ali Sadik, Nate Berghetzi,

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Tony Hinchcliff, Miss Patch, Shane Gillis, Sam Tallant, Steff Tolev,

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Jim Brewer, who's a great storyteller, Robert Kelly, christ To Stefano, Big,

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Jay Ogress and Jordan Jensen, Joe List, Mark, Norman Duncan, Trussell,

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Roywood Junior, Jess Reid, Dan Soder, and a bunch of others.

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The only times was impressed by the room or I

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Shafer said, this room is called the Box, and it's

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a burlesque place where maybe you can call it modern

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biless because it's not just feathers. I don't know, but

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I feel like burlesque is evolved and that's what this

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place is. It's kind of crazy. It's definitely a nightclub.

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Dave Chapelle used to have these comedian balls, which were

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so cool because they just invite comics, like all the comics.

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They'd invite everyone out and pretty much without saying it,

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it was like talk to each other in trade ideas

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about the industry. It was just so cool in there,

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and we scatted a bunch of places, but look at

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this place. It was just right. I want to test

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the sound because we put the stage in a different place.

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It moves around, and I thought it looked better with

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all the red. But I want to hear what the

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sound was like. And they were not on stage two.

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Arishfear said, They're like, oh, the MC will have a

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cordless and they move around. I watched it was great,

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but I was so effed up on Molly that I

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was grinding my tit so hard that I cracked a molar.

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So yeah, that place rules, okay, buddy. The Only Times

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is curious about being produced by Ymah Studios. How that happened?

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Or Shafer said, Tom Sigorey and I have a relationship.

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We were openers for Rogan together. We kind of broke together,

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so we just talk about things. He's so funny and prolific,

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and I like talking about things with him. I had

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a chance to start doing this show over there, and

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he was like, come talk to us about it because

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we're can to help you. Now. They've got a great

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infrastructure there and a streaming service too, so it's like

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they have everything already built in. Tom was like, dude,

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this show meant a lot to me. We should make

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it again. It's not gonna be a huge money maker

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for Tom. You know, it's like pro bona work for lawyers,

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so it's really cool of them. Another cool thing is

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the way the staff kicked in too. They're all super

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talented and kind of wasting their time on podcasts because

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they were more talented than that. But it's cool to

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work with a family, and I like the way they

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really took ownership of the work they did. The Hollywood

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Reporter profiled Max and Miani the subheader with the Roan

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and American War Ronnie an American comedy star. Maximini gets serious.

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By the time you're hearing this from me recording it.

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The war may have ended and restarted seven times, so

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don't get mad at me if this is dated material.

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The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Max the day after

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the President made that ultimatum to Iran. Max said, the

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immediate feeling is it's a huge relief the idea that

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a whole civilization would die wasn't coming to pass, so

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that made him happy. I could understand that. Max was

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born in Tucson, Arizona, son of Persian parents who immigrated

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to the States after the nineteen seventy nine Iranian Revolution

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when he was eight. They returned to Iran until Emani

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was seventeen. Then they moved to Sokal. Immediate attended high

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school and college at UCLA. He said, I'm very Iranian

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and I'm very American, depending on different situations in life.

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When it comes to family, I'm very Iranian, dating and

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lifestyle very American, he told THCHR. Regardless of the politics,

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it would be extremely excruciating to see bombs dropped on

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a country that I'm emotionally connected to. We heard the news,

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we were like, thank God, there's an opportunity for a different,

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more effective way of change than taking Iran off planet Earth.

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So if you've been listening, this guy got on my

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radar at the end of last year when they were

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like this guy's huge, and I'm like, who, And boy,

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the numbers are there now that you actually study it.

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John he has the ninth most viewed special of all

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time on YouTube with seventeen point six million in counting

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Instagram and YouTube View's top nine billion, slightly more than

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I get. And he has twenty seven point eight million

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total social followers, including seven point four million on his

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Instagram channel Max Persian, where we performed stand up and fource.

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In February, he sold out Madison Square Garden. That used

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to be a thing. I feel like comedians and this

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is not I'm not shading Max, but it used to

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be like, oh, a comedian sold out MSG, and like

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I feel like there's like seven of those a year now.

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The comedy industry has just gotten so huge getting political,

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Max said, the regime's thing. It's very sad. God knows

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how many more years it'll take to rebuild all these

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military defense systems. The ideology is the issue. In Iran.

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You live with a very dark, very extreme mentality. It's

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a very religious mentality. Nothing gets religion, but my personal

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belief is that it is not a way to governor nation.

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The young people of Iran need to discover who the artist,

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cover art, discover humanity, and I have the chance to

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make mistakes to find what the right path is for them.

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When you say freedom here, some Americans reply sarcastically. Freedom

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what freedom? We should never take it for granted. For example,

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a gay person could never have remotely a life in

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the Middle East. I don't take any day of my

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life here for granted, not necessarily because of comparisons to Iran.

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I travel the world, and I still find America very

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very special. No matter what a lot of people think,

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the opportunity to work hard and live with your family

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in a decent environment is still available and a blessing.

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Vanity Fair tells us Pete Davidson is over fame, socks

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or his exit strategy. That's right, Pete Davidson getting into socks.

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Pete Davidson tells Vanity Fair, no one gives an f

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about movies or television or any of that stuff. People

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just know I'm famous. They don't know that they do

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stand up or I'm an actor. Vanity Fair thinks Pete

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is quite dissillusioned with show business. Pete said, I've done

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everything I possibly can on my end, which means not

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having social media, barely going out. I don't even know

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what a cool place is because I haven't been to

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any of them. So he got involved with the socks company,

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Double Soul. I'll give them a plug, Pete said, I thought,

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but they were really cool and comfortable. One of the

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socks people said, we were like, wait a second, are

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those our socks? We were cheering. We made it as

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a brand. We literally bombed him with socks. Then Pete

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reached out to them. He's since become an equity partner

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and creative director at the SoC company. Socks executive says,

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if you look at the socks base and compared to

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any other category you think of makeup, clothing, shoes, there's

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a brand for everyone in every microdemographic. Socks were like

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this really weird category where someone was in a fashion

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and style. I was buying like under armour socks, which

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I'm probably wearing right now. Then this article from Vanity

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Fair turns into like socks propaganda and that's not why

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we're here. Where's the Pete Davison stuff. Pete says, I

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don't want to be doing this show business forever. It's

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exhausting to be in the public eye all the time,

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mentally draining, and it occupies a lot of time and travel.

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I've done research and most people will make their bank,

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have a drink or a soccer team. They always other things.

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I'm trying to find my thing. Socks are a necessity.

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Congratulations to Sarah Silverman, winner of Combody Survivor. Sarah Silverman

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beat runner up Nikki Glazer in a landslide. It was

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a lot of fun, thanks for playing along. Coming up

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on Thursday, it is the twenty twenty six comedian draft.

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What's that? John Well? John needed a pretape an episode

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this week, and Thursday is the day of the NFL drafts.

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I'm like, all right, let me go with the AI.

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And I had the AI form five teams with different

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I had the AI draft and I'm your host and

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I comment on the lineups, and it came out really well.

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A lot of production for Johnny Mac, you know, music

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articles they wouldn't have known. You could have just pretended

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it was Thursday. But Thursday is the twenty twenty six

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comedia drafts. That actually came out really fun. Did you

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catch this? Last week? The Sesame Street social media accounts

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posted a thing with romy Yusef and Elmo. Rommy appears

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on Sesame Street part of Arab American Heritage Month, joining

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Elmo for short segment celebrating Arabic language and culture. The

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clip is forty one seconds long and features Rami Yusef

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introducing a few commonly used Arabic words in a child

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friendly way to Ilmo.

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Speaker 1: Santa monicum everyone, I'm Ramy Yusef.

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Speaker 2: Oh it, Elma's here, mister Ramy. What is salama? Melkam?

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Speaker 1: Well? Salam means peace and it's a way to say

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hello in Arabic.

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Speaker 2: Oh come Solama laka every battle.

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Speaker 1: Elma and I are here to wish all of you

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a happy Arab American Heritage Month. Happy Arab American Heritage Month.

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I'm so proud of my Arab heritage and I'm so

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happy to share this month with my fellow Arabs and Alma,

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so thanks, hibib I will.

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Speaker 2: Let you read the comments for yourself. Meanwhile, Brian Video

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has announced a Halloween version of Last One Laughing.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Normally these are six episodes. The Halloween special will be

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one episode. We lock a bunch of comedians in a room.

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Jimmy Carr's the host. If you laugh, you're out. Well,

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for the Halloween special, you're out if you laugh, and

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you're out of if you scream. Speculation as the producers

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have some scares up their sleeves. The teaser Last One

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Laughing UK returns well the Halloween Special, but with a

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major twist hmmm from my san Antonio's. Some fans of

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the Killers of kil Tony were upset. You see, the

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fans of the Killers of kil Tony went to the

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Majestic Theater to see The Killers of kill Tony on

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April eleventh, but apparently some of the fans who purchased

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their tickets through stub Hub were turned away or issued refunds.

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One Facebook user Eric said, We're supposed to be there drinking,

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have a great time, but unfortunately we got screwed by

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stub Hub along with a bunch of other people. Eric

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suggested do not buy tickets from stub Hub. Others said

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they told us to come back from the nine thirty show,

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but we weren't doing that. After thirty minutes on the phone,

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they switched our tickets luckily and upgraded our tickets to

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the Lower Orchestra for free. Killers of kill Tony is

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a stand up comedy tour. The Majestics said. This particular

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lineup included Ari, Matty Hans Kim, David Lucas, and Martin Phillips.

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One person on Facebook said Tony Hinchcliff himself showed up

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as surprise guest. My san Antonio said it's unclear what

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caused the ticket mishaps with this particular show. My san

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Antonio says they reached out to the Majestic and stub Hub,

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but did not hear back at the time of their publication,

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nor by the time of this recording. Apparently, that is

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your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.