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yeah the priests haven't had to worry
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about getting canceled no they just
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transfer us to another parish
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is that dark ladies and gentlemen db
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please db come up
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and do the honors for who we are he he's
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different than he was in 2014 when he
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first came to the show
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i think back then he had only been at
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snl for about a year but now he is
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one of the head writers on snl season 46
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uh he's been on wwe raw wrestlemania
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he's also co-starred in chris rock's
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film top five along with you sway
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uh he's been nominated for four prime
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time emmy awards and he's won two
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writers guild of america awards
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and he's back on the show to join us he
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is the creator
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the writer and the star of his brand new
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series that damn michael che please
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welcome him back
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michael che michael chang michael j
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hey mike what's up
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i never felt older right now man thank
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you so much
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okay hey in case you forgot how old you
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are that's what we do here man
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it gets greater later but as our girl
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baby smith would say
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what a show that reminds you mike you've
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been around a long time brother but
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you know in this day and age man that's
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a compliment salute to you
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we only seen the star rise michael che
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ladies and gentlemen
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come on man i appreciate it man hey mike
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thank you so much
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um michael what what's changed now
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because usually what happens and
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when you're kind of on the radar a
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little bit under the radar rise into the
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radar you can get away with saying
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anything in a comedy routine then when
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you become
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a star you got you got a ton of groups
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organizations critics that scrutinize in
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your every word
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yeah that's that's the fact ain't that a
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fact bro what was right
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but you know what uh it's still it's
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still fun like for me that makes it more
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fun man i remember you know i'm the huge
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you know hip-hop kid so i remember being
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a kid and watching like
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you know calvin bucks and steve dolores
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tucker and
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you know they'd be out there protesting
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ice cubes and
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iced tea and tupac and all of that and i
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and i used to
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love that you know i used to be like man
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that they must whatever they think
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must be important because they got all
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the old people mad but
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so now like as a comedian when i see
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protests i'm like you know
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about me i'm like oh okay well this is
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the fun you wanted kid right
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the [ __ ] you wanted that's what you
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asked for man yeah
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what was the [ __ ] what was the first
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like notable protest over something you
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said what was it about
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oh my god i don't even know what the
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first one i think i might have made fun
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of that white lady that was complaining
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about being catcalled in harlem
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and uh that was that was pretty hot
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water
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but um and then yeah there's been
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recently i
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made a joke about israel and that that
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was that was funny as well
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and they had actually people outside of
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snl like with the
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um i don't know like poster boards with
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my face and exes on it and all of that
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stuff and
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it was it was very strange i went in the
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building one time at 30 rock
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and uh i was just this very very nice uh
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lady
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i don't want to say her name but she's
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very nice uh guard there
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that's been you know she's always been
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sweet to me ever since i started working
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there
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and we never really had a conversation
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but like we would always either exchange
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pleasantries you know
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and uh you know just going up to the
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elevator and she told me one time she
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was like
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you know you got to be you got to be
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careful out there you know people
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people want to kill you what are you
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talking about
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yeah literally she said that i was like
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she's like on twitter and i was like oh
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you can't listen everything on twitter
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people say crazy things and she goes
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well do you know what he looks like
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and i was like uh know who who looks
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like and then she starts pulling out all
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this information about this guy that
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they're actually looking for
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then what kind of was trying to get no
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this is a true story
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and i'm like for jokes this was
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something i said on the show some
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guys you know like on the lookout the
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whole security team so
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and that's how i found out damn
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wow mike your jokes must be potent bro
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michael
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he hit home runs it's very crazy you
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know it's like you know people
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people take things uh very seriously but
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you know to me it's like
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you know it only stings if it rings true
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wow
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are you creating a budget for security
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for bodyguard
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no no i i go on youtube and i look up 52
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blocks
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and that's my security you got to know
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how to hold those things you got to be
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able to throw those things kid
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man i'm mad at that so you know that's
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but well first congratulations man
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congratulations
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on all the success and people yeah yeah
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no no no
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well you know once they start
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threatening your life you know you made
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it man come on man michael j
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made it come on man
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no problem man i was reading this story
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i want to say it was uh might have been
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a new york post where they were
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claiming that people had issues between
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the snl cast members and elon musk
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who was set to host the show um now i
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don't know if this was a false story or
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a real story a false story people trying
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to get click
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bait what what do you know about that
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what are your thoughts on that
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i i wasn't told anything um personally
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but you know i i really don't i really
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don't
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know i mean it the funny thing about
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like the the kind of
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um you know this this kind of
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this this gap making such such noise and
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such controversy
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was like i know maybe 40 percent of the
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hosts that are hosting sometimes
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you know like sometimes they'll be like
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oh lily shakeman is the host and i'm
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like oh okay
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she's got seven movies on netflix that
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i've never heard of or whatever
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it's just you know it's so much the
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culture is so vast and the type of folks
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we have is so vast that you can't even
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know
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everybody you know but sometimes you
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know a black hole should be on it and
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she would be like who's that
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like how do you not know you know this
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person that's why i think so it's like
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with elon musk i know tesla that's about
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it and mars like that's really it i
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don't know
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that much about him i'm kind of excited
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to meet him because he
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he's uh he created so much controversy
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and with me that's
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that's always fun i like when the show
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is kind of polarizing and
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weird and people are talking about it it
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means people still care i mean he's been
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on other television shows nobody's
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mentioned it so
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him being on that show and people being
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you know even if they're upset about it
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it means that they're
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excited about it okay taking his stride
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heather b
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michael i i know michael what's up it's
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heather how you doing
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what's up heather b how you doing i'm
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great uh we were talking this morning
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during our celebrity wire segment about
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little uzivert and and i've always been
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fascinated with comedians because i feel
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like they
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sort of live double lives like we see
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them on these stages and they seem like
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big extroverts but
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in real life they're super introverted
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sometimes super nerdy you just don't
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know much about them personally but we
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were talking about little
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uzi vert this morning and how on the
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first date uh
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his girlfriend his girlfriend date met
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at the
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her halfway house she was in the halfway
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house and
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she had a purse with her at the halfway
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house and
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he told he pulled out a bunch of cash
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and said fill your bag up with as much
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money as possible ended up being 30
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grand
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i was wondering um what was the most
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extravagant first date you've ever been
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on um
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and would you spend that kind of money
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on the first date
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extravagant first date i don't believe
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it first of all i try to spend as little
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money as possible
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i told you sway start small
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extravagant at all because if exactly
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that that's what you like about me
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that's you set in the bar on the day you
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got to be able to like be
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broke first because this might not last
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i don't know if i told you
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but i i i get in trouble a lot so
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i don't know how long i'm gonna be able
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to keep up thirty thousand dollars in
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your bag so
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you gotta like me for me first um i try
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not to spend
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any money i've been going on a long walk
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that's what
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wow wow that would be best you would
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sway
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oh my gosh at the park yo yo hey
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yeah nice long one you know how big
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central park is man
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all night yo you going
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[Laughter]
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you gonna have you can make up
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adventures at central park you can you
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know start doing
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reversal you can do all kinds of stuff
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right mike come on we could race
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we could race go on the race that'd be
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awesome
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oh there you have it man michael j ain't
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trying that makes sense though
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mike i heard that you are the youngest
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of seven kids
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am i correct that is true
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i know okay
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as far as we have the photographs to
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show i'm wondering with you
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what is the dynamic like when you guys
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are all together
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because a lot of times the youngest is
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really getting clowned by all the oldest
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but you're the comedian of the family is
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that how you were able to like defend
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yourself when
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your brothers and sisters would kind of
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gang up on you if that happened
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that's a good question you know i think
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it's more i don't think it was so much
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learning how to defend yourself that
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makes you funny i think it's more
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when you're the youngest you have to
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learn how to observe you got to learn
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how to
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be seen and not heard so a lot of times
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you watch you just watching
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a bunch of you hanging out with
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teenagers as little kids
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five or six teenagers all the time and
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you
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you gotta be quiet so that they let you
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hang around them first of all and then
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second you're just smoking
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so much you're soaking up so much that
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you become observing that by the time
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you know you start comedy
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you use that you use that uh you look at
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the world that way you look at the world
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that
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everybody's crazy adults and everybody's
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crazy you know kids or whatever
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and i think that's helped me and most a
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lot of comedians i know
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are like either the youngest or they
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were in a situation where they had to
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observe you had to learn how to watch
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okay yeah you you got to be able to see
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what people aren't seeing to me that's
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what comedy is probably is finding the
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funny
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and the things we see every day whether
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it's pain whether it's
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mundane whether it's you know funny but
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another level of funny you know it's
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like it's like a magic trick we gotta
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find
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funny where you wouldn't ordinarily see
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like i looked at that
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all the time and i never looked at it
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that way or yeah i knew it was something
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weird
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that i couldn't put my finger on what it
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was and i think
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when you when you spend a lot of time
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being quiet and looking that's when you
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kind of develop that skill
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he used his siblings to develop his
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craft i like it that's what it sounds
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like
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sound like that right they should get
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some residuals but
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oh yeah they look i pray every day that
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somebody
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in my family makes it to help them
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that's love that's what's up you got
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other comedians in your family
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no i'm not that i know of doctor invite
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you for a couple of trying now but
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i don't know i don't think so we talking
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to michael che you know from snl who got
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that damn michael tay
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that's the he'll take you for a walk in
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central park baby come on get with him
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it's on hbo max um
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it's coming out on may 6th that's
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tomorrow uh what is that may 6th
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may 6th is thursday thursday thursday
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thursday
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it's coming out on may 6 hbo max i got
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hbo max
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i heard you mentioning liberal media
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might cancel you after this one and some
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of the topics you're going to be talking
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about including satan
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um
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uh cancellation that's that's just a
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little tongue-in-cheek
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it's a whole episode about me uh being
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worried about
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being cancer it's not it's not it's not
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real it's not real
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i gotta worry about being careful do you
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help me
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that [ __ ] but man if you worry about
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that you won't get no
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you won't get no rest i never you know
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yeah can't worry about that no man and
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then when you've been in it as long as
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you have man you tucked away enough cash
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michael che man i i know you tucked away
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enough cash but you feel comfortable
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they cancel you or not
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that that passive income is still coming
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in man michael che is here he's a
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success story
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what has been what what has been
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clapping sounds like somebody's frying
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chicken
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hey so for you uh what field outside of
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comedy has been most
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lucrative for you in terms of investment
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from a business perspective
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i don't i don't think that's at all
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though i don't
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do none of that stuff i i learned from a
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lot of my um
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friends that are doing okay uh
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like we don't i don't even like to talk
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about money
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i realize that the more money people
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think you have and the more success
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people think you have the worst they
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feel like they can treat you uh so i'm
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just gonna be
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on paper poor for the rest of my life
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you know i want people to always look at
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me as how i came in
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and uh not what i have because
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for us i feel like we always got to show
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our wealth and for other communities
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they never talk about it and they never
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show it
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and when they do show and they do
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feeling riches that people are you know
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boycotting out their hosts and nothing
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else
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so i'm trying not to talk about anything
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any money
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i'm doing terrible
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i feel sorry i walk around with an empty
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paper cup
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empty coffee cup and put a nickel in
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there if you see me because i'm doing
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bad
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you're doing that bad i like that mine
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get your mind out of my pockets i get it
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uh terence on the line from florida
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karen grand rises how you doing karen
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hey karen
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i'm doing good good morning good morning
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good morning everybody
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hey hey hey hey hey say hi to michael
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just wanted to let you all know
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hey michael chang with your fine
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oh my self wow first time anyone said
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that
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oh okay hey i'm glad to be the first
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okay thank you y'all want us to get off
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the phone
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go for that walk
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[Laughter]
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to tell y'all y'all the main reason that
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i keep my series x film
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keep doing what you're doing oh that's
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love thank you karen we broke too like
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michael che
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um you got a question for michael
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yes i do i was just wondering you know
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you are a head writer
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and news update is the reason why i
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watched snl
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what are some who are some of the
15:29
favorite guests that you have had
15:32
oh my god well we had gumby on updates
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so that was i think that was the kitchen
15:37
we had eddie murphy of gumby and crazy
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thing it wasn't planned
15:42
he literally called me down in his
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dressing room
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uh on like a friday i think it was like
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friday night
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and i was like hey i want to do gumby
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can i do gumby on update and i want to
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say michael jay you black best
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and i was like absolutely of course and
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then we
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wrote it up and he did it and it was
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like
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it was probably the best moment i've
16:03
ever had on saturday night live was
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watching eddie murphy as gumby called me
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a black bastard wow
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wow and you you wrote it up
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yeah you have you got it yeah i mean
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uh yeah well you know like i'm head
16:17
writer like you know you work you
16:19
structure everything you kind of do the
16:21
work for it but um it was it was awesome
16:24
man it was
16:25
it was really cool just having them in
16:26
the building it was surreal
16:28
like it was one of those things where it
16:30
was surreal for everybody eddie murphy
16:31
and
16:32
sandler but eddie murphy on a different
16:34
level because
16:35
you know and chapel as well obviously
16:37
for anybody on a different level because
16:39
it's like
16:40
it's why we know snl as you know in my
16:43
house that's why we
16:44
watch as well now like that you know and
16:46
uh
16:47
to it's like full comedy full circle you
16:50
know watching
16:51
watching raw and delirious when i wasn't
16:52
supposed to and
16:54
you know all of that so it was really
16:56
dope
16:57
michael is that like one of those days
16:59
then for you as
17:00
as an actor and an artist and a comic
17:03
where you
17:04
just because work can become like over
17:06
and over again but you go home after
17:08
work that day and just like oh
17:10
[ __ ] like that really just happened
17:12
eddie murphy
17:13
called me down to his dressing room was
17:14
that one of those days for you
17:18
the whole week was like still it was the
17:22
strangest thing
17:23
the whole week felt like a fever dream i
17:25
remember going in my dressing room
17:27
on saturday and like like because it was
17:30
a busy busy week
17:32
and that saturday i just needed to get
17:34
away so i was like yeah i'm going to
17:35
take like a 10 minute nap in my dressing
17:37
room
17:38
and hopefully nobody knock on the door
17:40
just to kind of clear my head a little
17:41
bit because
17:42
you know you're freaking out you gotta
17:43
you gotta perform i go
17:45
walk into my dressing room and it's
17:47
chapelle and chris rock
17:49
eating sushi
17:53
i'm like what the hell are y'all doing
17:57
so we figured we just coming here like
17:59
it was so
18:00
packed oh my god i just sat in there
18:03
with them it was like is this weird like
18:05
that eddie murphy and i was like it's
18:06
weird that charlie eats sushi and i
18:08
don't care
18:08
you know like any other day this would
18:11
be the highlight of my life
18:12
but right now i gotta get ready for
18:14
eddie murphy's show you know like it was
18:16
crazy like that
18:18
so they were all hanging out with you
18:21
it was all hanging everybody was
18:22
everywhere i remember
18:24
uh kanye and
18:27
kim was there i think it was it was nuts
18:29
because i was doing warm up
18:32
and uh you know usually warm up i'm just
18:34
like you know i just like
18:35
ask a couple questions make it you know
18:36
break the ice or whatever before we
18:38
start the show
18:39
and uh i yell out you know how many
18:42
people in here voted for trump it
18:44
usually gets
18:44
nothing and this one guy jumps up
18:47
in the second balcony i'm voting for
18:49
trump and it's kanye west and it's
18:52
like what is happening right now he's
18:54
sitting in the studio audience talking
18:55
about how i voted for trump
18:57
and everybody just goes nuts and i was
18:59
like all right what warm-up's done
19:00
they're ready to laugh
19:01
and then we started the show that way it
19:03
was it was just surreal the holy spirit
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wow wow congratulations
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i got a picture of the after party it's
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like we're just hanging out and it's
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like me
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born q-tip chappelle quality
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it's the it's the most it's the weirdest
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picture you're like
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how do these people find each other it's
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crazy wow man
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that's a testament to who you've become
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too bro they just want to hang out with
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you rub off on it you know i'm gonna
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hold up that's the wrong but you know
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they just want to hang out with you
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that was the wrong expression but
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congratulations michael che man you
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earned it man
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come on bro it's been seven years since
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we talked to you
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damn man you feel old man i'm broken i'm
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still broken
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23. okay okay mike's still broke in case
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you're wondering so
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that's why we need everybody to support
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his special
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on hbo max please please support this
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man michael che you know from snl but
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support that special okay that damn
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michael chase premiering
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thursday on hbo max
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let's get to streaming crazy just in
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case somebody
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you know try to cancel them he'll have a
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little bit of the savings that's what
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we're going for all right
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don't get it all right hey michael proud
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of you brother
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really proud of you thank you guys so
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much man thank you so much i appreciate
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it
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absolutely we appreciate you take care
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stay great family
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okay my man
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you
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