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Can't wait to see the show. I saw the commercials and thought -- who's the white guy? Looks familiar. But never matched the TV image to your substack.

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I’m very happy to read this good news and look forward to your new show! 👏🏼

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Congrats! Looking forward to your new show.

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This is such great news! So happy for you, so happy for me getting to enjoy your wit and gifts.

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The show is a perfect fit for you. So excited to see it. It will be an un-unhappy six weeks for us all. Congratulations.

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Congratulations on your new show, Michael. I look forward to watching it. I hope the future finds you as un-un-un-un-unhappy as possible.

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Loved reading this.

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So very happy for you! I wish you so many hours of rest in the future, but not now. Now is your time to shine.

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Congratulations! I hope you continue to share your observations on life via the written word on Substack. You make life a bit more tolerable on bad days and exponentially better on good days. I look forward to the new show.

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Congrats michael. I've been a fan since your Stella days, so I will definitely be checking this out despite my dislike of CNN. Glad to see you back on our screens entertaining the masses where you belong.

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Funny stuff from a very serious city, home of Coca Cola (less fun since cocaine removed) the Braves, Hawks, Falcons, Dream, and United FC. Tour the coca cola plant and you get an original bottle of Coke sans cocaine. Not funny stuff; the burning of Atlanta by UNION troops in the Civil War where 3,700 Union troops were killed or missing and 5,500 Confederate casualties. As you possibly know, Savannah was not burned for a couple of reasons; it was not considered an important militarily and because of the large stores of cotton that belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln's sister.

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This is so awesome! We just happened upon The Jim Gaffigan Show last night but now we don’t have to watch reruns (although we will) to see you! Congratulations! My husband says, “cool” which means he’s over the moon. As are all your fans.

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Wasn't ‘Have I got news for you’ a British show originally? Premiered in 1990

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It was! Still on over there. They've tried to bring it here for years without success. Now, finally, it's being given a real shot.

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Grateful for your gratefulness and can’t wait for the new show. Hope you continue to feel less bad.

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i'm glad you got a new job, cause as much as i enjoy reading these missives, it's nice to also see you in the non literary sense from time to time. entertainment is weird, i know, but i find you to be thoughtful and genuine, at least in the likely entirely fictitious rendering of yourself that you present to us gullible suckers that pay to find out what you think about aliens or some such nonsense.

wishing you the best in your upcoming endeavors❤️

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Congratulations on taping the test episode! Hopefully now there’s a reason to start watching CNN again.

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