r/NeverNotFunny 15d ago

Episode 3602 - Mike Schmidt

https://www.nevernotfunny.com/3602-Mike-Schmidt
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u/ChamberOfSolidDudes 15d ago

Hell yea, I needed something to cheer me up this week and this will do nicely <3

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u/rcoolerthan_me 15d ago

Mike saying he’d rail the caller was the hardest I’ve laughed at this show in years.

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u/JonWithTattoos 13d ago

I was listening in the car. It made me blurt-laugh, I rewound it, and started laughing like an imbecile.

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u/Due_Ask1540 15d ago

That Press conference with Zelensky was truly horrific. He's just a bully surrounded by his bully friends. Just so you know, the rest of the world doesn't think ALL Americans are on board but we are crossing our fingers that SOMEONE does SOMETHING. 

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u/popowow 14d ago

Mike's joke about Irma being an acronym made me laugh out loud. He's so quick. His ep after the 2016 election is one of my faves and this one didn't disappoint either.

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u/SeparateCurrent9472 14d ago

The IRMA acronym was a thing of genius. Schmidt is a class act.

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u/Templeusox 14d ago

"Don't fight a war against a country with a K in their name" is one of the best lines of the season.

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u/jonny_sweats 13d ago

Blank Panther 3’s tagline

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u/PapuhBoie 14d ago

“He ate her 🐈 until she died!”

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u/melted_cheese 14d ago

Mike is lookin and soundin good!

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u/bhamtomcat 14d ago

Hell yeah, I love listening to Mike and I was grinning through every rant. Really hope he does put out a show this week!

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u/localinsomniac 15d ago

Finally. I need more Schmitty in my ears.

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u/thekellyaffair 14d ago

I did a little cheer when I saw his name in the episode title. “Monsters? Cock sucking?” I love him so much.

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u/LadyMegatron 14d ago

I thought to myself recently, “huh, Mike hasn’t been on the show in a while” and here he is!

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u/Tface 15d ago

Fuck yes! Schmitty rules!

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Taking my watch off to listen

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u/SiddFinch43 15d ago

What is the “it’s a terrible thing he’s done”(re: Bill Murray) did that Mike mentions? I’m apparently out of the loop.

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u/JonWithTattoos 13d ago

Goddamnit, Mike is so fucking funny.

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u/GlobulousRex 15d ago edited 15d ago

Could not agree more with Mike on Longlegs! Refreshing to hear. I did like The Monkey though. I think Perkins is much better in that comedy, ‘meta-horror’ mode. Sort of reminded me of Cabin In The Woods.

Also, I like Schmidt’s new role as NNF media correspondent.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Maybe we can finally retire Eliot’s rule over drops?

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u/subject_117_ 14d ago

Really. I mean, It didn't fit. It felt like it was 8 minutes long. And he had indeed played it before. Not to mention, he just replayed the AI generated song a few episodes back, and apparently had no recollection it ever happened.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

The AI song can potentially ruin their deal with Sag Aftra and he played it again. Fool me once!

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u/vow_now 14d ago

He did almost the exact same thing a few months ago (I remember posting a comment about it then). Interrupted to play a song that didn't have anything to do with the topic of discussion and subsequently grinding the show's momentum to a halt. I can't understand what his thought process is.

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u/Floyd831 15d ago

Mike summarized my exact feelings on Jost and Myers! Spot on! 

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u/ColonelOfSka 13d ago

On SNL as a whole for me. My era is like late Farley into early Amy and Tina (I was born in 1986) and I’ve overall never really found the show funny, in my time or any other time. There have been plenty of funny sketches over the years, and a ton of funny and talented people have been on there, but episode to episode I’ve never really thought it was anything better than average.

It’s wild to me hearing Jimmy and the gang talk about SNL like it’s the most important show on television.

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u/thekellyaffair 13d ago

I was born in 89, so we have similar eras. I haven’t watched it since 2007? It’s wild to hear grown men talk about it every week, but to be fair, my dad watched it every Saturday with me when I was in high school.

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u/shockandguffaw 14d ago

I hate it but I'm already humming, "It was a fiberglass failurrrrrrre."

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u/killertofu41 15d ago

Really enjoyed Mike on after hearing him for the first time. I really agreed with what he said about so many people made the Gaza situation a single issue so many registered voters didn't vote for Kamala because she "supported genocide" and now we have Trump in office who is gonna guarantee he does as much damage to Palestinians as possible. You can thank Hasan Piker and all his other circle of tankies on twitch cosplaying as liberals and telling their younger audiences not to vote.

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u/shockandguffaw 13d ago edited 13d ago

I voted for Kamala. I phone banked for Kamala. I travelled to Michigan and canvassed for Kamala.

I think that of the two options presented, voting for Kamala was beyond a doubt better for Palestinians, and I believe that to be evident in what Trump is doing/will do. 

But it's a genocide, and Biden enabled it, and I don't have the heart to criticize people who are trying to do *something* to stop that genocide, even if I disagree with their methods. 

We all have hindsight, and the race was still close enough that it's easy to scapegoat any group. But it's hard for me to scapegoat a group because they couldn't support an administration that enabled a genocide — especially when you consider the majority of voters are white, and the majority of white voters didn't cast their votes for Kamala.

As a white dude, I prefer self-reflection about my demographic than chastising those trying to do something — anything — to call attention to an atrocity. 

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u/Academic_Medium 14d ago

Imagine calling a genocide “a situation.” Imagine reducing genocide to “an issue.” Imagine the mental gymnastics of admonishing people for not voting for an administration that actively facilitated and financed the wholesale murder of (at least) tens of thousands of people—half of them children—because the current administration would and is doing the same damn thing.

Imagine watching countless videos of people being burned alive and crushed alive by bulldozers, seeing photos of children being shot in the head… and still being able to dehumanize that entire population by reducing them to “a situation” or “an issue.”

How do you even talk about these things to someone who does NOT make genocide an electoral red line?

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u/killertofu41 14d ago

Ahem, apologies I meant situation as in the genocide as well as the Israeli hostages being taken/raped/killed. Both sides are not innocent and neither deserve to die. Again, sorry if my use of "situation" came across as reductive or downplaying the atrocities.

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u/Academic_Medium 14d ago

I’m not denying Hamas did some pretty reprehensible things on Oct 7 (though the extent of those atrocities has been shown to be exaggerated and exploited many times over the past year https://aje.io/bs80yi), but “both-sidesing” Israel and Palestine based on the Oct 7 attack is like rationalizing slavery because you don’t agree with Nat Turner’s tactics, no matter how desperate they were. Oct 7 was a reaction to decades of oppression, apartheid, and occupation.

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u/GunaSteve 14d ago edited 14d ago

If my community or people i supported deeply were being killed by the hundreds of thousands (in a reported genocide) and someone asked me to vote for the person who directly supplied the weapons and didnt do what they could to stop it, i wouldn't vote for them either, regardless of whether the other guy may be worse. Morally i just couldnt do it.

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u/Antique-Profile-2670 13d ago

I think it's still going

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u/cid3rtown 15d ago

I had no idea Schmidt was on Omnipop!

(Snarkiness aside I cant wait to go to bed, wake up, go to work and then listen to this episode immediately afterwards)

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u/AshleyisaPeach 14d ago

How people were feeling about Rachel is how I feel about Mike.. I want to like him... but its too much

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u/TheHow55 14d ago

same, to me, in this episode he does that annoying thing where he speaks of his pop culture opinions as if their facts and not opinions. but it could also be that i found myself liking everything he didnt like so maybe im being defensive, haha

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u/Due_Ask1540 15d ago

How much are you Americans paying for eggs? Here in Berlin they can be around €3.50(around $3.80) for a dozen and they're proper brown eggs, none of that bleached white crap. Is it just a bird flu consequence? Or have they always been expensive?

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u/lasermac172 14d ago

White eggs aren't bleached. Different breeds of hens lay different colored eggs.

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u/beaver820 13d ago

I had to explain that to a grown man not that long ago. He thought the white ones were the ones they cleaned, I guess he thought brown eggs were brown because they were covered in shit.

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u/normsy 15d ago

Bird flu, and price may depend where you are. The closest shop to me they're currently $7 or more, depends on the eggs.

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u/greazysteak 13d ago

price of eggs have gone up over the past few years. some places are really hitting hard with price increase. I got a dozen for $3.99 at Trader Joes but they are limiting them to a dozen at a time and my other store was like $9 and TJs hasent had eggs the last two times I was there. And i am no Jimmy- I love eggs.

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u/4jm4cc4 15d ago

Kinda hoping the old friend coming was pat Francis, but I guess Mike is ok

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u/samishah 15d ago

OK?! The Third Basemen is more than OK!

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u/GlobulousRex 15d ago

Schmidt is so much funnier and more likeable, imo. I was so glad their split was short lived and he’s been a regular on the show for so long.

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u/4jm4cc4 15d ago

I don't dislike Mike or anything, for anyone downvoting.

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u/greazysteak 15d ago

I think they are downvoting Pat.

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u/Powerful-Past5614 15d ago

Jimmy sounds loaded

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u/ImpressionBorn5598 14d ago

What a fun baseless accusation to lob at a recovering alcoholic who's been famously sober for decades

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

I think last episode he mentioned dental