Dec. 11, 2024

Jamie Foxx's Comeback, Chris Rock Drama, and Aziz Ansari's New Tour

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac provides an entertaining roundup of comedy news, including Jamie Foxx's revelations in his latest special about his recovery from a serious illness, Chris Rock's controversy at a billionaire's party, and Aziz Ansari's new 'Hypothetical' tour. The episode covers various comedians and their recent projects, as well as quirky anecdotes from trivia nights, offering listeners a humorous and informative take on the world of comedy.

00:00 Jamie Foxx's New Special

01:38 Comedy Specials to Watch
01:50 Will Ferrell's Award and Comedy Lists
02:28 Chris Rock's Party Incident
03:18 Matt Rife and Caitlyn Clark
03:53 Caleb Heron's Comedy Journey
05:05 Trivia Team Dynamics
07:16 Aziz Ansari's New Tour
07:26 Raygun the Musical Controversy
08:36 Greg in L.A. and Closing Remarks

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Jenny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. My former coworker, Jamie Fox's special is out,

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and we found out, you know, was it Diddy that

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did it to him? Apparently the answer no. Fox said,

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the Internet tried to kill me though they said I

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was paralyzed. They said I couldn't walk. Well, look at

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me now. He then dances. In the new special. Fox said,

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the Internet said that Puffy tried to kill me, and

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that's what the Internet was saying. I know what you're thinking,

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did he That's pretty good. Actually. He also talked about

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the Infamous parties and said, I left those parties early.

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I was out by nine. I had some more spoilers

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for the special. Jimmie comes out on stage, proclaims he's back.

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He dances, hypes up the crowd, and he told us

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what happened to him with his mystery illness. April eleventh.

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I was having a bad headache and I asked my

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boy for Asper, and I realized quickly that when you're

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in a medical emergency, your boys don't know what the

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f to do. Jamie said, before he even took that Asper,

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and he blacked out. And remained unconscious for weeks. He says,

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I don't remember twenty days. He credits his sister as saying,

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get him in a car. That ain't my brother. Right there,

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a doctor told Jamie's sister that Jamie was having a

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breen bleed that has led to a stroke. During his recovery,

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Fox says his sister and his daughter Corinne shielded him

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from the outside world, telling us they didn't want you

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to see me like that, and I didn't want you

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to see me like that. I want you to see

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me like this. So that's in line with what I've

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said many times on the podcast that what had me

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worried is I felt that if they could have propped

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Jamie up and sat in Pool's side looking cool, they

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would have shared a picture, and they clearly didn't. Seems

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like the special has good buzz on it. I have

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not watched it yet. I got to plan a big

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comedy night to watch Fox and Fortune Fimsta from last

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week and also Matthew Brissard specials out on YouTube now,

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so I have a lot to catch up on Will Ferrell.

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We'll receive the seventeenth annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence

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in Film Today, Michael Douglas, son of Kirk Douglas, said

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comedy is the hardest in you make it look easy.

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Will congratulations, Dad loved you. Friend of the show, Jason

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Zenneman from The New York Times put out his comedy list.

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I'm going to talk about that on Saturday. I felt

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like that would make a good Saturday episode. But Zennaman,

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interestingly his top special of the year Ronnie Ching's Love

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to Hate It, and that's not out on Netflix until Tuesday.

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So I am definitely going to hold off recording my

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top specials of the year because if he's got Ronnie

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at number one, and I don't want to skip that

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before I publish my list. On Gossip Corner, Tony Rock

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responded to the story about Chris Rock storming out of

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a billionaire's private party. Told you about that one yesterday.

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Tony said the vibe was people shouldn't be filming comedian sets,

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even at private functions, as comedians constantly work through material.

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Tony says fans who try to put out incomplete work

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are fing a holes, and said if you record it

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and put it up before the joke is perfective, it's

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like a chef giving you a plate of food before

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it's finished. It's like buying a car before they're done

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making it. You should wait for the finished product. I'll

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ask the question. If I'm a billion and I'm paying

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Chris Rock all this money to come to Australia and

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perform at my party, why are you working out material? Dude?

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I want your a game. Chris never returned to the

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stage and was placed by Keith Urban, who presumably played

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hit songs and not It was like, oh, here's a

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song I'm working on. I don't have a chorus yet,

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right I might be on team billionaire. Chris Matt Raife

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took the stage in a Caitlin Clark jersey. I saw.

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I think she's Time magazine sportsperson of the Year and

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well deserved because I don't have to tell you who

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Caitlyn Clark is, so that's just a sign of her

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fame and her success. Anyway, Rife donde Caitlin Clark jersey

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and started joking about Angel Reese. Angel is a bit

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of a rival of Kaitlin Clark in the WNBA there,

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Raife said of Caitlin she could have hit Trump from

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half court. This is amazing. She's incredible. Have you guys

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been to her game? Have you checked out her play live? Bro?

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Watching Caitlyn play is like watching the longest yard. The

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longest yard is also what they call the distance between

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Angel Reese's eyeballs. Yikes. Caleb here and worked in campaign

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spaces before stumbling into improv and eventually comedy. His first

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gig was putting a bors burlesque show in Missouri for

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twenty five bucks a week. He said, twenty five bucks

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just talking to microphone. I was obsessed and I was

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so bad at it, but that's how I started his

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new project, Sweetheart's a eighteen roum com on Max. He

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says online comedy was always a mean to an end

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for him. Some people love the online thing, but I

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started leaning into it when I didn't get SNL the

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first time. It was kind of a Spike video, like

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I'll show them. You know, as artists were always mining

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our lives for content, but I felt like I was

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doing it in a really disingenuous way where every interaction

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I had, I'd play out the content in my head.

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I'd be like, point of view, you're being weird to

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me at dinner, Like shut up, I was really not

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enjoying that. And then I did stand up crowd work

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clips for a second and hated that. And the thing is,

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I love crowd work. It's fun. I don't love posting

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the videos. I have friends who are very good at it.

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I'm not judging them, but for me, I felt like

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I was selling my audience out. It felt like I

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asked these people to come out and have a good time,

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and now I'm pipping out our interaction that's supposed to

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be this beautiful, special thing happening in the room just

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for us for views and clicks. So I was like,

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that's not gonna work. And then I was like, podcast,

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all I have to do is talk to some what

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I genuinely care about. Someone else can post it. I

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don't have to read the comments. This I can do.

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Friend of the show, Scott Beckett, he was listening to

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Saturday's interview with Matthew Bissard and he sent me a

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note and said, you didn't know hyperbolic? Yikes, good luck

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at trivia. No, I didn't know hyperbolic. See on the

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trivia team, Bill is the smart one. I'm the one

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that rings up points with like random eighties TV shows

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and random eighties music and stuff like that. So we've

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got Glenn. Glenn is the science guy. We have Van

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Van Handles sports and cars, Bill is history and smart stuff,

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and then I'm all the other things, Like when the

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trivia guys were like, this was the nineteenth person on

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the nineteen eighty one season of Saturday Night Live, and

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I'm like, oh, Charles Rockett, and everybody's like looking at me,

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like who what, here's your cast of nineteen eighty one SNL.

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By the way, Danny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Gail Matthias, Joe Piscopo,

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An Riseley, Charles Rocket, and in the middle of December

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they added a guy named Eddie Murphy who saved the

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darn thing. So that's what I do with the trivia.

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I answer the Charles Rocket question. I think we finished

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tenth last week, and the last round is always brutal.

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But you know what if the trivia guys are listening,

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and I know you do. We loved last week, like

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we get a I mean, we don't really care. I've

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learned to like shut up. I used to argue with

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the trivia guys and they're like, who is this a hole?

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And I realized you know what they're right, I'm an

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a hole. Shut up, have your two beers who cares?

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But like, we hate when it's Ariana Grande questions because

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we don't know those. Now, last week there were a

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couple like actual trivia questions, like stuff about I don't

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know facts and we didn't know the answer, And I'm like,

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I'm okay losing if we don't know facts. But like

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when it's like what was Ariana Grande's third album called,

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we don't know? Who cares? Anyway, Scott Beckett said, you

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didn't know hyperbolock Yike's good luck at trivia? So, Scott Beckett,

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you know that face Taylor Swift made it the Golden

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Globes Awards when Joe Koy told a joke about her.

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Do you need me to remind you of the joke?

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I think you do. Let's listen the big difference between

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the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes,

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we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. Yeah, so

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you know that face Taylor's making right now looking at

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Joe Cooy. I'm making that face at Scott Peckett. No,

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I don't know what hyperbolic means, even though Matthew Persard

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told me I didn't even listen to the answer because

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he's I'm sorry. Not as canceled as we were led

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to believe. Zi's has announced a new tour. It's the

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Hypothetical Tour. He'll play a bunch of places, including Montreal.

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He's up there on March twenty seventh. An Australian comedian

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has canceled a musical about Raygun. Remember Raygun, the breakdancer

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from the Olympics. Raygun the musical was going to open

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in Sydney. Comedian Steph Broadbridge said Ygun's lawyers got in

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touch with the venue and threatened legal action. Raygun's lawyers

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were worried I was damaging her brand, which I would

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never do. She doesn't need me to do that. Broadbridge said.

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The lawyers had asserted she wasn't allowed to perform the

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dance moves because Reygun owns the Kangaroo dance. Broudbridge said

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that one did puzzle me. I mean, that's an Olympic

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level dance. How would I possibly do that without any

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formal breakdancing training? I love this. Broadbridge says she will

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perform at a later date and change the spelling of

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Rayguns to include the letter I. In an attempt to

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in Los Angeles with his mentor canine companion, Winston. And

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a lot of money on the side. You know what

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I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, this thing ain't free. A lot

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of fun. It's a job. I can't tell the mortgage company. Hey,

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but I was telling people about comedy specials. That doesn't work.

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I have to give them actual money. So that's why

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you get commercials. So you understand how this works. Why

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am I explaining this? All right? I'm heading off to trivia.

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Hopefully they're not going to ask us to define hyperbolic

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or anything like that. Actually, they've posted the clues. You

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want to know what we can do here, I'll tell

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you if they post clues. So they're called best Men Trivia.

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See how smart Scott Beckett is? All right, Scott Beckett?

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In scrabble, what are the two highest scoring tiles? Scott Beckett,

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I bet it's not hyperbarlic, is it? No? It's not.

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I got this one right. Still finished in tenth place.

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See tomorrow