S4 Episode 54 - Running for the Border
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Clyde is desperately trying to escape the borders of his own social strictures as he connives to engage Roberta in conversation and possibly even... CANOODLING! Plus, your host finally reveals his current Taco Bell order! ALSO: He reveals his new job, but says this with all humility: please do not post this information because - to his surprise - it is NOT yet public. Also his explanation about part of the show turns out to have been incorrect. Fun!
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| 0:29.3 | without the ads. From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultree, Savannah, this is obscure season 4 in American |
| 0:45.4 | Tragedy I am your host your friend your ear lover and literary man-splainer |
| 0:51.0 | in-chief Michael Ian Black now I think able to report on the new job |
| 0:58.6 | I will be doing come this fall by the time this episode airs I think contracts will have been signed |
| 1:06.5 | and announcements made as I said if you've been listening it's not such a a big job, but it should be fun, and it's exactly the kind of job I like because it requires very little of me. |
| 1:21.0 | About 30 years ago in England they started producing this show called Have I Got News |
| 1:28.3 | for You, which is a sort of typical British panel show in which two teams banter about various topics of the day |
| 1:38.5 | the show has been a phenomenal success. |
| 1:42.1 | As I say, it's been running for over 30 years and CNN of all people |
| 1:47.4 | are bringing it to the states because lately they've been airing reruns of Bill Maher on Saturday nights on CNN and |
| 1:58.1 | apparently it's doing very well for them. The new CEO of CNN, I guess is looking at capitalize on this and he comes from the BBC where I believe he was one of the guys who helped develop have I got news for you. So that is what I will be doing. It's a panel show comedy panel show hosted by a rotating host and featuring two team captains who are permanent and |
| 2:28.1 | then two guests who also rotate every episode and I am one of the team captains along with Amber Ruffin who you may |
| 2:36.4 | know from Seth Myers and then she had her own talk show on Peacock so that's what I |
| 2:42.2 | will be doing and what's so great about it is it's just one day a week I go, I sit down, |
| 2:48.0 | I don't have to stand up, I don't have to walk around, I get to wear nice clothing, It's in a studio so I don't have to deal with |
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