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today. Well, I don't see the point in waiting longer.

Let's bring her out.

The Star Attraction, the one you came to see.

Ladies and gentlemen, the one you came to see. Ladies and gentlemen, the one the only Ms. Judy Gold.

All right. Are we recording? Are we recording? You know, welcome to Kill Me Now. I don't know why I would start with you now. If any of my students start with you now, I'm like,

NO, stop! Anyway, welcome to kill me now. You know, I'm very excited about today's episode. I do want to begin with some very sad news. My very close friend, confident, brother, the funniest man alive, Bob Smith, passed away on January.

Okay, more dramatic.

Okay, passed away.

It is dramatic.

January 20th from complications from ALS, the worst fucking disease ever.

The fuck. There is no God and anyway he was the

funniest and we're gonna do a memorial service but that's what I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about Bob and how

fucking funny he was. He was the first openly gay comic to be on the Tonight Show, Jay Leno. He was, he had a first openly gay male to have an

HBO special. Five books, he's the author of five books incredible I mean

Shreehab is his last book he wrote it literally he had an iPad and he had

one hand that he could lift up he'd lift up his arm he couldn't move his fingers he'd lift up his arm, he couldn't move his fingers, he'd lift up his arm and he dropped one

finger on the letter and he wrote his book, which in it's an amazing book, TreeHAP.

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