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Penn Jillette Wants to Talk It All Out

Penn Jillette has a large, framed French-language poster of Renaldo and Clara behind him. Most people wouldn’t know what that is, but as a Bob Dylan fan, I do — it’s his largely forgotten, widely panned 1978 film that he wrote, directed and starred in. Only real Dylan obsessives talk about it, and Jillette is one of them. I’m speaking to him over Zoom — I’m in Los Angeles, he’s in Las Vegas — and when I mention the poster, it makes him smile. 

Is Donald Glover Complicit in the Completely Lame Hoax at Mark Normand’s Stand-Up Show?

The viral crowd-clearing incident from Mark Normand’s show at New York Comedy Club on Wednesday is a confirmed hoax, and while the perpetrators of the publicity stunt haven’t revealed their true identities, we’re willing to bet they picked their aliases from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator.

Videos from Normand’s cut-short set at the Manhattan theater spread confusion across the online comedy community all day yesterday — in the audience-recorded clips, a panicked man in a beanie hops on the stage in the middle of Normand’s set and stands there awkwardly until a security guard drags him off by the arm.

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