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 Welcome to Stand Up on the Spot, the improvised standup show. I'm your host, Jeremiah Watkins. Uh, by round of applause, who has never been to this

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 show before? All right, let me explain how the show works. We, the comedians, are going to

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 come up here with note prepared material. We're going to ask you guys for suggestions, and then we get to

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 create stand up on the spot based off of what you say. Hopefully, it's funny. Sometimes it's really good, sometimes

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 it's not. But, uh, but we're going to have a good time tonight. We got a a lot of uh good people and a lot of uh funny

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 friends that uh I got to agree to do the show. So uh let's uh let's freaking do

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 this. You guys get how the show works. Let's take some suggestions from the audience.

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 The gingerbread housemaking. Now we get uh suggestions from you and

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 then I will do comedy. N N the National Rifle Association. The

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 National Rifle Association. Very funny.

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 Carrot talk. See, I'm just going back and forth. You think I'm going to come to you for more suggestions? No. I got

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 them all at the front. I knew that was coming. Here's SNL right

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 away. Yes, it's me. I was fired from SNL. Actually, not for the reason you heard.

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 It's because I'm terrible at improv and uh this is this is going to be bad. Clowning clothes.

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 Nothing. That was like counting crows, but clowning clothes. How does the show work? I forget. I I forgot. You guys

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 suggested. I thought I just had to say nonsense. I don't know who it was yelled like 70 times.

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 Every comedian. He was like, "H whores." I saw his girlfriend like, "Would you stop?" Like, "I want to talk about

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 whores." Cat Williams. Cat Williams is the man. I'm gonna tell you what Cat Williams

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 did. He changed comedy because now people just want to go on Shannon Sharpe's podcast. But it also would be

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 awesome to have Cat Williams just talk you down and be like, "You ain't never been you ain't

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 ever going to be anything." Hey, look. I know. I know. I suck. Let's get this started. Go ahead.

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 Ask me Ask me something. Rox, you said, "Hey, you." All right. I'm tired of that

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 I said it one time. The white people like, "Black people got autism, too. This is great. And now I'm y'all

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 king. I like this a rock. It's a rock. I got a rock in my head. Regardless of how long you've been

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 watching Stand Up on the Spot, chances are one of your favorite comedians or jokes has been influenced by that show.

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 What began in 2010 as an unfilmed exercise rooted more in improv acting

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 than actual standup has since evolved into comedy's longest running crowdwork show. Moving from Second City in

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 Hollywood to the Comedy Store main room, becoming a staple of comedy festivals and bringing together the top comics

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 from all over the world to build jokes based on audience suggestions in real time, which has led to some of the most

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 memorable bits of the last decade. Jeremiah knows that one of my better

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 stories that I think people might recognize was created on his show. You know, that's how conversation works

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 really is like you'll tell me a story about when you played little league baseball and then I'll remember when when I played little league baseball.

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 You'll hear that and you go, "Well, I do I had a crazy coach." And then you'll tell me there. That's how conversation works. And I love when people go just

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 say something random and then I tell you my first thing that I thought and then we see where that went. I was in Stand

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 Up on the Spot Jeremiah's room doing new material. This is back when everyone lived in LA. And someone just goes, "Anne

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 Frank," and I said that's so funny. I used to think Anne Frank and Helen Keller were the same person.

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 The room went crazy. And I didn't know that was a joke. And I go, "No, for real." I found out at the Anne Frank house and the room went laughed even harder.

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 And it's a true story. And I went I was with like a group of like seven, eight guys. We're all really high. And I was telling Helen

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 Keller jokes. And this woman goes, "Are you telling Helen Keller jokes?" And they realized I didn't

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 know who Anne Frank was. That I thought I was at Helen Keller's house the whole time. And then the punch line was, you know, the best laugh is when you want to

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 laugh and you're a little high, but you can't laugh because you're at a Holocaust museum. So I get off stage and Rogan

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 walked right up to me. He goes, "Is that real?" I went, "Yeah." And he goes, "That's real?" I went, "Yeah." He goes, "That's got to be a bit."

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 And I said to him, "What's so funny is in between us going to the Anne Frank House and

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 being at the Anne Frank House, we went to a live sex show. It's where I saw flying dildos."

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 And so that all turned into a bit all based off Jeremiah's Stand Up on the Spot show.

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 Wow. Yeah. And you think of all the swings you don't take. Jeremiah calls you up

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 all the time. He's like, "Can you come by? Can you do it?" And you look at your schedule and you're like,

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 "But if you knew that you were going to get a bit like a showcase bit for you,

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 if you just put your kids to bed and then went over to the club and did a spot and then drove home and you got to bed late that night."

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 Every night it's that show is really great.

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 Lady turns around and goes, "Are you making Helen Keller jokes?"

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 "Ari, I realized at that moment that we're not in Helen Keller's house.

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 We're in the Frank house and I don't know who Anne Frank is."

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 There's been a lot of evolution of the show over the years. It's been going on for over 15 years now.

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 It started off at the Second City in Hollywood.

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 Originally it was almost all improvisers and not even standup comedians on it.

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 Then eventually, as I got more footing as a standup and started connecting with great comics,

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 it shifted more to make it friendly for standup comedians.

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 It's moved all around Los Angeles. At one point we did it as a podcast on the Deathsquad network with Brian Redban.

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 It was called Thunder ____ Against My Will.

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 Redban and Joe Rogan loved it.

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 Jeremiah actually has had this show for a while.

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 I finally did it like last week. I loved it so much.

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 I thought it was so much fun that I was like, "Dude, you guys got to start doing this at Deathsquad."

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 So we're going to try to do this every other week here at the Ice House.

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 Basically the comedians come up on stage, we ask the audience for suggestions,

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 and then we have to create standup on the spot.

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 We were thinking of a name for it. One of them was Crowd Pleasers.

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 Another idea was Thunder ____ but when I started calling it Stand Up on the Spot

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 it was just better for SEO and YouTube.

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 I wanted to make it more accessible.

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 Back in the day it was harder to book because we needed 10 comics.

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 But when you're starting out everyone just says yes.

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 Ari Shaffir was one of the early headliners who did the show.

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 We did it at Second City, Bar Lubitsch, Improv Lab, Comedy Store Belly Room,

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 and eventually the Comedy Store Main Room.

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 Bobby Lee was the hardest person to convince to do Stand Up on the Spot.

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 It took years of asking.

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 Finally he said, "What do you want?"

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 I said, "I want you on Stand Up on the Spot."

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 He destroyed.

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 It was a full circle moment for me.

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 He's from Bad Friends. He's from Tiger Belly.

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 Please welcome Bobby Lee.

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 Ladies and gentlemen.

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 Yeah we got white Americans here. Thanks for coming out.

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 I love your soft white skin.

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 Some people view the show differently.

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 For me it's like jazz. You're watching a comedian's brain work in real time.

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 Some comics don't want it filmed.

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 So I give them the option to approve the footage.

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 Sometimes they kill but still don't want it out.

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 I have hard drives full of amazing sets that never got released.

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 Bill Burr did the show and destroyed but didn't want the set released.

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 Dream guests would be Burr, Louis CK, Steve Martin, and Jim Carrey.

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 Also Eddie Murphy.

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 Santa Claus. That's a good suggestion.

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 I grew up in a trailer. We had no chimney.

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 My cousin shot the deer.

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 We had a lot of deer jerky after that.

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 Dusty Slay is a very scripted comic but he did the show and killed.

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 Dream guests: Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, and Dave Chappelle.

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 Crowdwork has become huge in comedy over the last few years.

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 Netflix even produced crowdwork specials.

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 Jeremiah has been doing this on YouTube for over 15 years.

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 Joe Rogan once did an hour of straight crowdwork on the show in 2014.

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 Now it's the perfect content machine for comedians.

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 Clips can be posted without burning material.

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 Oh P Diddy. How have we not talked about that yet?

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 A thousand bottles of lube.

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 It's great for comics like me who always want a take on current events.

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 Sometimes those ideas become real bits later.

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 Emotions. I don't have those.

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 The worst suggestions are when the audience tries to be funnier than the comedian.

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 The best suggestions are simple words or phrases.

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 Sometimes those suggestions turn into bits on specials later.

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 I once built a whole bit about the Kardashians from a suggestion.

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 Pete Davidson gentrifying the neighborhood.

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 Stand Up on the Spot is something I'm most proud of.

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 I love introducing people to comedians they didn't know before.

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 I like hosting solo to set the tone of the show.

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 But riffing with friends on stage is the best.

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 So tonight we had a lot of fun.

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 You guys gave me some crazy suggestions.

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 Now this is going to be on the internet.

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 I am Jewish.

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 I got a four inch one.

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 Who wants to see it?

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 Timmy No Breaks ladies and gentlemen.

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 That clip of us doing the song was one of my favorites.

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 I've known Jeremiah since he started the show at Second City 15 years ago.

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 I thought improvised standup was impossible back then.

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 Now there are tons of riff shows like Bombs of the Barrel.

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 Kill Tony has been around about 13 years.

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 Seeing top comedians riff live is amazing.

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 Stand Up on the Spot is the longest running improvised standup show.

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 It combines Jeremiah's two loves: improv and standup.

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 Guest spots from last week.

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 The Joe Rogan Experience featured Donnell Rawlings, Michael Jai White, Michael Malice, and Matt McCusker.

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 Kill Tony featured Matt Rife and Jeremy LaMer.

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 Are You Garbage had Big Jay Oakerson.

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 Flagrant featured Sagar and Jetty.

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 Whiskey Ginger had Barry Rothbart.

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 The Adam Friedland Show had Covicular.

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 Jim Norton Can't Save You Right Now had Zack Wild.

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 Story Wars featured Greg Stone, Adrienne Iapalucci, and Danny DeVito.

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James Donald Forbes McCann released the song Organhour.

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 Theo Von had Chris Hemsworth and James Nestor.

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 TigerBelly had Anderson Paak.

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 Howie Mandel had Spencer Pratt.

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 Take Your Shoes Off had Adam Ray and Brent Morin.

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 Stuff Island had Naim Ali.

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 Legion of Skanks had Yannis Pappas, Vinny Guadagnino, and Mayhem Miller.

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 Bertcast had Mumford and Sons.

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 You Know What Dude had Rich Vos, Bonnie McFarlane, and Andrew Dunn.

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 Bad Friends, The Tim Dillon Show, History Hyenas, Rough Week, Only Feehans, We Might Be Drunk, Cockfight, Chubby Behemoth, The Regz, and Friendly Fire had no guests.

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 Lucas O'Neal released Emotional Man.

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 Evan Hall released Big Cool Bug.

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 Chris Lambert released Killing in Obscurity.

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 Taylor Tomlinson released Prodigal Daughter on Netflix.

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 Joey Avery's special Live in San Francisco comes out March 8.

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 Mark Normand's special None Too Pleased premieres March 17 on Netflix.

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 New standup from Josh Johnson, Adam Ray, Big Jay Oakerson, Ryan Sickler, and Geoffrey Asmus is out now.

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 New episodes of Stand Up on the Spot and Roast Battle League are also on YouTube.

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 Full interviews with Jeremiah Watkins, Bert Kreischer, Timmy No Breaks, and Kevin Hart are available on Patreon.

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 But that's all the comedy news we have for you this week.

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