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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

1268 Christian Finnegan Saturday Special !

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Christian Finnegan  is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor based in New York City.

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Finnegan is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on VH1's Best Week Ever and as Chad, the only white roommate in the “Mad Real World” sketch on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included “Conan”, “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, "Would You Rather...with Graham Norton", “Good Afternoon America” and multiple times on The Today Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and on History's I Love the 1880s. He hosted TV Land's game show "Game Time". As an actor, Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of "Carl" in the film Eden Court, a ticket agent in "Knight and Day" and several guest roles including a talk show host on "The Good Wife". In October 2006, Finnegan's debut stand up comedy CD titled Two For Flinching was released by Comedy Central Records, with a follow-up national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007. “Au Contraire!” was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009. His third special "The Fun Part" was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4, 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15, 2014.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, sorry I left you hanging on a Friday, but it is the Saturday special with Christian Finnegan, which is just a conversation with comedian and commentator Christian Finnegan, who I always love talking to who will join us for Podjam 2 in Las Vegas on March 28th, 30th.

0:19.1

Get your tickets now. Tickets available in the show notes.

0:21.5

We hope to see you there.

0:22.8

So yeah, sorry I didn't get the show up yesterday.

0:24.3

I had a whole bunch of things going on and wasn't expecting to have.

0:27.0

They were all good, so not to worry.

0:28.5

Just some phone calls and things I had to do and got to do.

0:31.2

So it made it really hard for me to get it all together yesterday.

0:33.9

But I am here today. I've got a couple of other great conversations that I've taped that I'm going to be sharing

0:38.9

maybe tomorrow, definitely next week.

0:41.5

But today it's a Saturday special, no news, eclipse, just not a normal show, just the

0:45.2

conversation with Christian.

0:46.7

And now there is this AI function for podcasts and everything, right?

0:53.0

It's now available that summarizes your conversations after you've

0:56.6

taped them and describes my conversation, this AI describes my conversation with Christian this way.

1:02.3

It says, Pete Dominic hosts a conversational segment humorously dubbed the Saturday special,

1:07.6

where topics range from personal branding approaches to serious matters such as the recent catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, sympathy for affected friends and the broader impacts of climate change.

1:18.3

The discussion veers into reflections on political and social challenges, including frustrations and misinformation, and lies spread by prominent figures and media.

1:27.5

Dominic and his guest critique billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk,

1:31.6

discuss systemic ineffectiveness, what the hell is that, and express a cautious hope for

1:36.1

return to decency and shared truths.

1:38.9

They also tackle the impact of social media on societal behavior and ponder the historical

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