November 15, 2025 • 11 mins
Johnny Mac discusses Jay Leno's extensive experience in late-night comedy and his personal life, including caring for his wife with dementia. Jimmy Kimmel talks about his suspension and reflections on his show. Stephen Colbert shares his struggles with anxiety and passion for work. Gianmarco Soresi addresses the complexities of language in comedy and his journey in the entertainment industry. The New York Comedy Festival features performances by notable comedians like Aziz Ansari and Louis CK.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media. Ah, we gotta talk about that guy
Jay Leno again. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy.
Is you know Jay Leno? He's just, you know, the
worst person who ever lived because he dares to have
opinions about late night comedy. I mean, what does Jay
Leno know about late night comedy? He hosted the Tonight
(00:25):
Show for twenty two years. That makes you some sort
of expert, Jay Leno. So he last weekend, you know,
he was out doing the fundraising stuff that he does,
and he caught up with People magazine and talked about
taking care of his wife, Mavis, and Jay said, I
like taking care of her. I enjoy your company and
we have a good time. You know familiar. Mavis has
advanced dementia. Jay spoke with People at the thirty fourth
(00:47):
Annual Love Ride last week. Jay said, I've been very
lucky in my life. My wife's fighting to mention all that,
but it's not cancer, it's not a tumor. So I
enjoy taking care of her. It's not work. People come
up and they say they feel so sorry. I understand
their sympathy, but you know, a lot of people are
going it's okay. I like taking care of her. I
enjoy your company. We have a good time, we have
fun with it is what it is. There's going to
be a couple of years in a tricky so the
first forty six really great. But it's okay. It's not terrible,
(01:10):
not a woe is me person. I'm just lucky that
I'm able to take care of her. As soon as
this rise over, I'm going home and I'll make our lunch. Boy.
You could see why people hate this guy. He's just horrible.
What a horrible, horrible person. Jimmy Kimmel was on glennon
Doyle's podcast. He talked about Kimmel Gate and said, if
I'd not been allowed back on the air, I'd be
a martyr. It's not a terrible position to be in
(01:31):
as a comedian, but it's not the position I wanted
to be in. And it's also not the way I
wanted the show to end. I wanted to end in
a graceful way. I want to have a farewell party
with our staff. I want to do all those things
he wanted to say, the things I want to say
to people. But the idea of having an all shut
down abruptly and unjustly would have been awful. It's not
just how you want to go. It'll be twenty three
years in January. Well, so Kimmel's been hosting twenty two years.
(01:52):
That does not make you an expert. What are you,
Jay Leno? Now you think you know something about late
night comedy after hosting twenty two years? Please kim will
But we weren't fired. We were suspended, and I think
suspended means come back. It just didn't feel like that
to me at the time. Been a busy week. I
never circled back to that Stephen Colbert or to do
with GQ. As I read through this interview, it seems
(02:13):
like I got really feisty at times. Colbert said, I've
had recreational anxiety for a lot of my life, starting
with my teens, I had different answers, then checking out,
basically just never doing my schoolwork, only reading the books
I want, eventually smoking a lot of weed. Stuff like that.
When I was twenty nine, I had an honest to
god nervous breakdown. I don't know what the clinical term
is these days, psychological collapse. I had an implosion, and
I was newly married. Didn't know what I was going
(02:34):
to do. Suddenly I was paniced that I'd chosen something
to do with my life that would give me the
life I wanted. And I don't mean I wouldn't be successful,
but that somehow the life I'd chosen would not allow
me to be a husband and the fodder the way
I wanted to be, because of the demands of how
hard it is, the sacrifices you have to make it.
I tried xanax, the stuff like that, but I could
still feel the gear smoking, you know what I mean.
And I woke up one morning and my skin wasn't
on fire. I was like, what was different? Oh, it
(02:55):
was the first day of rehearsal for the new show
Comedy Keeps Me Sane. I woke up one day and
I thought, Oh my god, I get to go to work.
And then I thought, oh no, Now I can never
stop working. I used to think that. Now I actually
think a lot of those things caused me great anxiety.
I've already passed through the fire of that trial and
that stage of my life, and I'm not a young
man full of doubt anymore. And I think if I
stopped work, if I choose to next may I'm done
(03:16):
and I get a catamaran and just sail. I don't
think that would come back. I really feel like that's
no longer Who I am? GQ asked kolbertready fantasized about
walking away from show business. Colbert said no, because I
love creating things, and I still want to work with
the people I work with. I don't know how you
work with two hundred people, two ten something like that, right,
it's an enormous amount of people. I love them, and
I want to continue to do that with them to
degree that I can. And I want to find that
(03:36):
with other people too. I just love making things, GQ.
So you're not even like, we'll see you're saying we're
going to keep going. We're going to make something else.
Colbert said, yeah, why not? Politico wrote this comedian just
showed Democrats how to solve their messaging problems. I wonder
who this comedian is. Well, I know because I put
the show together. A new comedy special captures the Democratic
Party's messaging challenges and a way forward. All right, who
(03:59):
is this commit it's friend of the show, Jen Marcos Siresi.
David Litt wrote this article for Political David Litt left
the White House in twenty sixteen as a special Assistant
to the President any senior presidential speech writer. He's currently
the head writer and producer for Funny or Die. So
you go from writing for Biden to Funnier Die. I
guess I mean John Favreau went from writing for Obama
(04:21):
to hosting a podcast. Not the film guy, John Favreau,
potse of America, John Favreau, two different guys. I digress.
David Litt spoke to Jen Marcos Siresi, who said there's
something about the term sex worker that just feels belabored.
Is longer than hooker or prostitute. David litz Sisi and
I are both professional word people, and in my professional opinion,
He's right. Sex worker sounds clunky, and I'm starting to
(04:42):
think getting to the bottom of this kind of clunkiness
might be the secret to resurrecting a Democratic party whose
brand remains to borrow a term from political science in
the toilet. Ser Raise possesses an increasingly common kind of
Internet fame. You've either never heard of him where you
see him absolutely everywhere. Then this is interesting. Jenmarco says,
I have a joke, and then I'm going to say
later tonight, and that joke uses the term illegal immigrant,
(05:03):
and listen. I've had progressive friends who pulled me aside
and said, hey, you should reconsider that. It's a hurtful phrase.
It implies that someone's existence is illegal. And I listened
to them. I'm not an a hole about this stuff.
This is really interesting. Tred Marco says, it went around
the country in Canada and Australia using the term undocumented immigrant,
and you know what happened. Stop getting laughs. So I
had to go back to my progressive friends and be like,
I'm sorry. Unlike you guys, I have to win the
(05:24):
popular vote. John Marco, who you've either never heard of
or is everywhere, was in Playbill and he told them
I was someone who wanted to be on Broadway from
the time I was a child. I used to dance
in the living room with my parents. I love musical theater.
I was on every show every year. Definitely one of
the stars of the high school theater program where the
love was beaten out of me. He has the recurring
show Theater Adult at Joe's Pub in New York City.
(05:47):
He explains, if I bring a pianist on stage at
the Comedy Seller. I'm going to get a lot of
flak from other comedians, but theater adult, it's safe. And
the last one we did we found a lawyer. Her
last role was Sarah in Ragtime. She hadn't sung since
two thousand and eight, and I said, get on stage,
and she sang your Daddy's Son for the first time
well over a decade. It was amazing. John Marco's comedy
album Thief of Joy Live in San Francisco is out now.
(06:09):
This is an audio version of the special and has
bonus album only content. Can we give him the Grammy
Hamptons dot Com spoke to Rosebud Baker. Hey, rosebud Baker,
Where did the nickname Rosebud come from? She said, I'm
actually not sure. Several people in my family have taken
credit for it, which makes them unreliable narrators. I can
only assume that my parents wanted something unique but Southern
(06:29):
Gothic enough that i'd either become a writer or haunt
an old house. I think I've managed a little bit
of both. She visited the White House as a child.
What was her favorite memory there? She said, I remember
standing in the Hallway staring at the portraits of the
first Ladies and thinking, Wow, these women look like they
could all ruin my life in very different ways. It
was surreal. As a kid, you don't feely get the
weight of the place. I remember being unimpressed by the
President living in a rental property at the Flyover Comedy
(06:53):
Festival in Saint Louis today, back from Riodd, it's the
You're not so canceled A Z's I'm sorry. Maybe there's
a meat and greed for the show. He could ask
Zee some things about his resume. No, yes, yes, he's
your big name there Tonight Patty Harrison has two shows
at seven and nine New York Comedy Festival. A lot
of shows as always. Let's see if there are any
names tonight. Gee, Jorden's at the Bell House at four o'clock.
(07:17):
That's my kind of show. I could be back home
by seven point thirty. A sleep in the chair by
ten sounds great. Alex Edelman at Carnegie Hall at six o'clock.
Todd Glass, apparently the most popular comedian in the United States,
blow the radar, but he could sell out the New
York Comedy Festival for two weeks in a row do
two shows at night. Everybody's going to see Todd Glass,
Margaret Show's Choligarchy at town Hall at seven, Louis c
(07:40):
k at the Beacon at seven thirty, Adam Conover at
the Bell House at seven thirty. All right, so this
is far and away the best night that they've had.
Chris Fleming at Carnegie Hall at nine o'clock. Now, I
think Chris Fleming is fantastic. I just can't fathom that
Chris Fleming is selling out Carnegie Hall. Now as I
record this, the get tickets button is there, so maybe
(08:03):
I'm not crazy. This is not a dig at Chris Fleming.
I really like Chris Fleming, but Carnegie Hall just seems what.
Let's say, I'm going to try and order. The most
they'll let me order is eight tickets, and I'm going
to hit best available, no matches for best available that
doesn't make sense, and I'll choose my own seats. Now,
(08:23):
there's not a crazy amount to hear in the second tier.
That looks like there's about twenty tickets. Let's see, if
I click dress circle, it's mostly the back row that's available.
And if I hit balcony and probably another twenty six,
so it's close to a salout, so it's not absurd.
I'm just surprised. I like Chris a lot. Todd Glass
another show at nine o'clock. Again, Todd Glass, America's most
(08:44):
popular comedian, could play two shows a night in New
York City for weeks at a time, and everybody goes.
The Jackie Mason Musical is at Triad Theater at nine
point thirty, Ron Funch is at the Bellhouse at ten
and some other stuff. So that is far and away
the best night of the New York comedy so far.
Vice is putting some spin on Kathy Griffin here, they
write nearly two decades after his death, George Carlin remains
(09:06):
one of the most prolific stand up comedians of all time,
but he doesn't have the most specials overall. That distinction
goes to Kathy Griffin, who holds the Guinness World Record
for most stand up specials by a comedian. Okay, hold
on time out. Carlin has fourteen HBO specials. When that
was like a thing, you know. Now you get down
(09:27):
on the chuckle Hut, your friend brings their phone and
films you and it's up on YouTube twenty minutes after
the show. The audio sucks, there's no editing, and you say, hey,
my new specials available on YouTube. So you know, let's
not quite compare George Carlin's HBO specials to some of
Kathy Griffin's work. Bill Maher has eleven HBO specials, really
(09:48):
he does? Why have I not seen any of them?
Robert Klein performed on the first HBO comedy special in
nineteen seventy five. He only did nine. Dennis Miller landed
his first HBO special before war. Bill Maher he has eight,
and we'll see if Fargo native John detoy Naram can
catch up. John's getting a special through Nate Brigetzi's Nateland
(10:09):
Presents the Showcase on YouTube. John said, honestly, seeing my
special premiere, it brought me back to that first open mic.
Ever did you have dreamed? But just knowing you actually
took chances and they paid off. It's been almost unbelievable
to this day. After seeing Nate perform live in Las Vegas,
John and his wife made the decision to leave Fargo
and moved to Nashville to pursue comedy. John said, we
started talking at the airport after the show about where
(10:31):
would go if we really want to do this seriously,
Nashville was open, We're both clean comics, and it was
a one shoe fits kind of situation. Totoy explained, I
got asked to warm up for one of Nate's shows.
He added Zany's. That got me introduced to him and
his team, and about a year later I got asked
to do warm up for another series at Zanies. The
following year, I was asked to record one of his
showcase specials that he releases. Only twelve comics were chosen
(10:52):
for each season of the showcase. Wife Paula had appeared
the previous season. The two became the first comedy couple
to each release a Nate Land special. They hope to
become famous enough to move back home to North Dakota.
If we get to a certain point in our career,
we'd love to move back home so where everyone is.
Both our parents live in Fargo, and it'd be great
to have that village around us that is truly our
family roots. As we begin to expand our family, which
(11:14):
we want to do in upcoming years, well you never know,
I mean, I might be sitting here telling about the
Fargo Comedy Festival, or maybe Joe Rogo to move there
and we'll have the Fargo comedy scene. You never know.
Stranger things have happened. And that is your comedy news
for today. See tomorrow
Callaroga Shark Media. Ah, we gotta talk about that guy
Jay Leno again. Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy.
Is you know Jay Leno? He's just, you know, the
worst person who ever lived because he dares to have
opinions about late night comedy. I mean, what does Jay
Leno know about late night comedy? He hosted the Tonight
(00:25):
Show for twenty two years. That makes you some sort
of expert, Jay Leno. So he last weekend, you know,
he was out doing the fundraising stuff that he does,
and he caught up with People magazine and talked about
taking care of his wife, Mavis, and Jay said, I
like taking care of her. I enjoy your company and
we have a good time. You know familiar. Mavis has
advanced dementia. Jay spoke with People at the thirty fourth
(00:47):
Annual Love Ride last week. Jay said, I've been very
lucky in my life. My wife's fighting to mention all that,
but it's not cancer, it's not a tumor. So I
enjoy taking care of her. It's not work. People come
up and they say they feel so sorry. I understand
their sympathy, but you know, a lot of people are
going it's okay. I like taking care of her. I
enjoy your company. We have a good time, we have
fun with it is what it is. There's going to
be a couple of years in a tricky so the
first forty six really great. But it's okay. It's not terrible,
(01:10):
not a woe is me person. I'm just lucky that
I'm able to take care of her. As soon as
this rise over, I'm going home and I'll make our lunch. Boy.
You could see why people hate this guy. He's just horrible.
What a horrible, horrible person. Jimmy Kimmel was on glennon
Doyle's podcast. He talked about Kimmel Gate and said, if
I'd not been allowed back on the air, I'd be
a martyr. It's not a terrible position to be in
(01:31):
as a comedian, but it's not the position I wanted
to be in. And it's also not the way I
wanted the show to end. I wanted to end in
a graceful way. I want to have a farewell party
with our staff. I want to do all those things
he wanted to say, the things I want to say
to people. But the idea of having an all shut
down abruptly and unjustly would have been awful. It's not
just how you want to go. It'll be twenty three
years in January. Well, so Kimmel's been hosting twenty two years.
(01:52):
That does not make you an expert. What are you,
Jay Leno? Now you think you know something about late
night comedy after hosting twenty two years? Please kim will
But we weren't fired. We were suspended, and I think
suspended means come back. It just didn't feel like that
to me at the time. Been a busy week. I
never circled back to that Stephen Colbert or to do
with GQ. As I read through this interview, it seems
(02:13):
like I got really feisty at times. Colbert said, I've
had recreational anxiety for a lot of my life, starting
with my teens, I had different answers, then checking out,
basically just never doing my schoolwork, only reading the books
I want, eventually smoking a lot of weed. Stuff like that.
When I was twenty nine, I had an honest to
god nervous breakdown. I don't know what the clinical term
is these days, psychological collapse. I had an implosion, and
I was newly married. Didn't know what I was going
(02:34):
to do. Suddenly I was paniced that I'd chosen something
to do with my life that would give me the
life I wanted. And I don't mean I wouldn't be successful,
but that somehow the life I'd chosen would not allow
me to be a husband and the fodder the way
I wanted to be, because of the demands of how
hard it is, the sacrifices you have to make it.
I tried xanax, the stuff like that, but I could
still feel the gear smoking, you know what I mean.
And I woke up one morning and my skin wasn't
on fire. I was like, what was different? Oh, it
(02:55):
was the first day of rehearsal for the new show
Comedy Keeps Me Sane. I woke up one day and
I thought, Oh my god, I get to go to work.
And then I thought, oh no, Now I can never
stop working. I used to think that. Now I actually
think a lot of those things caused me great anxiety.
I've already passed through the fire of that trial and
that stage of my life, and I'm not a young
man full of doubt anymore. And I think if I
stopped work, if I choose to next may I'm done
(03:16):
and I get a catamaran and just sail. I don't
think that would come back. I really feel like that's
no longer Who I am? GQ asked kolbertready fantasized about
walking away from show business. Colbert said no, because I
love creating things, and I still want to work with
the people I work with. I don't know how you
work with two hundred people, two ten something like that, right,
it's an enormous amount of people. I love them, and
I want to continue to do that with them to
degree that I can. And I want to find that
(03:36):
with other people too. I just love making things, GQ.
So you're not even like, we'll see you're saying we're
going to keep going. We're going to make something else.
Colbert said, yeah, why not? Politico wrote this comedian just
showed Democrats how to solve their messaging problems. I wonder
who this comedian is. Well, I know because I put
the show together. A new comedy special captures the Democratic
Party's messaging challenges and a way forward. All right, who
(03:59):
is this commit it's friend of the show, Jen Marcos Siresi.
David Litt wrote this article for Political David Litt left
the White House in twenty sixteen as a special Assistant
to the President any senior presidential speech writer. He's currently
the head writer and producer for Funny or Die. So
you go from writing for Biden to Funnier Die. I
guess I mean John Favreau went from writing for Obama
(04:21):
to hosting a podcast. Not the film guy, John Favreau,
potse of America, John Favreau, two different guys. I digress.
David Litt spoke to Jen Marcos Siresi, who said there's
something about the term sex worker that just feels belabored.
Is longer than hooker or prostitute. David litz Sisi and
I are both professional word people, and in my professional opinion,
He's right. Sex worker sounds clunky, and I'm starting to
(04:42):
think getting to the bottom of this kind of clunkiness
might be the secret to resurrecting a Democratic party whose
brand remains to borrow a term from political science in
the toilet. Ser Raise possesses an increasingly common kind of
Internet fame. You've either never heard of him where you
see him absolutely everywhere. Then this is interesting. Jenmarco says,
I have a joke, and then I'm going to say
later tonight, and that joke uses the term illegal immigrant,
(05:03):
and listen. I've had progressive friends who pulled me aside
and said, hey, you should reconsider that. It's a hurtful phrase.
It implies that someone's existence is illegal. And I listened
to them. I'm not an a hole about this stuff.
This is really interesting. Tred Marco says, it went around
the country in Canada and Australia using the term undocumented immigrant,
and you know what happened. Stop getting laughs. So I
had to go back to my progressive friends and be like,
I'm sorry. Unlike you guys, I have to win the
(05:24):
popular vote. John Marco, who you've either never heard of
or is everywhere, was in Playbill and he told them
I was someone who wanted to be on Broadway from
the time I was a child. I used to dance
in the living room with my parents. I love musical theater.
I was on every show every year. Definitely one of
the stars of the high school theater program where the
love was beaten out of me. He has the recurring
show Theater Adult at Joe's Pub in New York City.
(05:47):
He explains, if I bring a pianist on stage at
the Comedy Seller. I'm going to get a lot of
flak from other comedians, but theater adult, it's safe. And
the last one we did we found a lawyer. Her
last role was Sarah in Ragtime. She hadn't sung since
two thousand and eight, and I said, get on stage,
and she sang your Daddy's Son for the first time
well over a decade. It was amazing. John Marco's comedy
album Thief of Joy Live in San Francisco is out now.
(06:09):
This is an audio version of the special and has
bonus album only content. Can we give him the Grammy
Hamptons dot Com spoke to Rosebud Baker. Hey, rosebud Baker,
Where did the nickname Rosebud come from? She said, I'm
actually not sure. Several people in my family have taken
credit for it, which makes them unreliable narrators. I can
only assume that my parents wanted something unique but Southern
(06:29):
Gothic enough that i'd either become a writer or haunt
an old house. I think I've managed a little bit
of both. She visited the White House as a child.
What was her favorite memory there? She said, I remember
standing in the Hallway staring at the portraits of the
first Ladies and thinking, Wow, these women look like they
could all ruin my life in very different ways. It
was surreal. As a kid, you don't feely get the
weight of the place. I remember being unimpressed by the
President living in a rental property at the Flyover Comedy
(06:53):
Festival in Saint Louis today, back from Riodd, it's the
You're not so canceled A Z's I'm sorry. Maybe there's
a meat and greed for the show. He could ask
Zee some things about his resume. No, yes, yes, he's
your big name there Tonight Patty Harrison has two shows
at seven and nine New York Comedy Festival. A lot
of shows as always. Let's see if there are any
names tonight. Gee, Jorden's at the Bell House at four o'clock.
(07:17):
That's my kind of show. I could be back home
by seven point thirty. A sleep in the chair by
ten sounds great. Alex Edelman at Carnegie Hall at six o'clock.
Todd Glass, apparently the most popular comedian in the United States,
blow the radar, but he could sell out the New
York Comedy Festival for two weeks in a row do
two shows at night. Everybody's going to see Todd Glass,
Margaret Show's Choligarchy at town Hall at seven, Louis c
(07:40):
k at the Beacon at seven thirty, Adam Conover at
the Bell House at seven thirty. All right, so this
is far and away the best night that they've had.
Chris Fleming at Carnegie Hall at nine o'clock. Now, I
think Chris Fleming is fantastic. I just can't fathom that
Chris Fleming is selling out Carnegie Hall. Now as I
record this, the get tickets button is there, so maybe
(08:03):
I'm not crazy. This is not a dig at Chris Fleming.
I really like Chris Fleming, but Carnegie Hall just seems what.
Let's say, I'm going to try and order. The most
they'll let me order is eight tickets, and I'm going
to hit best available, no matches for best available that
doesn't make sense, and I'll choose my own seats. Now,
(08:23):
there's not a crazy amount to hear in the second tier.
That looks like there's about twenty tickets. Let's see, if
I click dress circle, it's mostly the back row that's available.
And if I hit balcony and probably another twenty six,
so it's close to a salout, so it's not absurd.
I'm just surprised. I like Chris a lot. Todd Glass
another show at nine o'clock. Again, Todd Glass, America's most
(08:44):
popular comedian, could play two shows a night in New
York City for weeks at a time, and everybody goes.
The Jackie Mason Musical is at Triad Theater at nine
point thirty, Ron Funch is at the Bellhouse at ten
and some other stuff. So that is far and away
the best night of the New York comedy so far.
Vice is putting some spin on Kathy Griffin here, they
write nearly two decades after his death, George Carlin remains
(09:06):
one of the most prolific stand up comedians of all time,
but he doesn't have the most specials overall. That distinction
goes to Kathy Griffin, who holds the Guinness World Record
for most stand up specials by a comedian. Okay, hold
on time out. Carlin has fourteen HBO specials. When that
was like a thing, you know. Now you get down
(09:27):
on the chuckle Hut, your friend brings their phone and
films you and it's up on YouTube twenty minutes after
the show. The audio sucks, there's no editing, and you say, hey,
my new specials available on YouTube. So you know, let's
not quite compare George Carlin's HBO specials to some of
Kathy Griffin's work. Bill Maher has eleven HBO specials, really
(09:48):
he does? Why have I not seen any of them?
Robert Klein performed on the first HBO comedy special in
nineteen seventy five. He only did nine. Dennis Miller landed
his first HBO special before war. Bill Maher he has eight,
and we'll see if Fargo native John detoy Naram can
catch up. John's getting a special through Nate Brigetzi's Nateland
(10:09):
Presents the Showcase on YouTube. John said, honestly, seeing my
special premiere, it brought me back to that first open mic.
Ever did you have dreamed? But just knowing you actually
took chances and they paid off. It's been almost unbelievable
to this day. After seeing Nate perform live in Las Vegas,
John and his wife made the decision to leave Fargo
and moved to Nashville to pursue comedy. John said, we
started talking at the airport after the show about where
(10:31):
would go if we really want to do this seriously,
Nashville was open, We're both clean comics, and it was
a one shoe fits kind of situation. Totoy explained, I
got asked to warm up for one of Nate's shows.
He added Zany's. That got me introduced to him and
his team, and about a year later I got asked
to do warm up for another series at Zanies. The
following year, I was asked to record one of his
showcase specials that he releases. Only twelve comics were chosen
(10:52):
for each season of the showcase. Wife Paula had appeared
the previous season. The two became the first comedy couple
to each release a Nate Land special. They hope to
become famous enough to move back home to North Dakota.
If we get to a certain point in our career,
we'd love to move back home so where everyone is.
Both our parents live in Fargo, and it'd be great
to have that village around us that is truly our
family roots. As we begin to expand our family, which
(11:14):
we want to do in upcoming years, well you never know,
I mean, I might be sitting here telling about the
Fargo Comedy Festival, or maybe Joe Rogo to move there
and we'll have the Fargo comedy scene. You never know.
Stranger things have happened. And that is your comedy news
for today. See tomorrow
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