The Week and 2023 with Christian Finnegan

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🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Awesome chat with Christian today. We helped define #TaintWeek talked the week in news and politics and took a somewhat heartless but very funny look at who we lost in 2023

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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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0:00.0	Stand up.
0:02.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Saturday show with the great Christian Finnegan, comedian, writer, actor, and all around one of my favorite
0:11.4	commentaries, commentators, and all the land.
0:15.2	I'm very happy when he joins me here on Saturdays.
0:18.8	The feedback I get from you is that you look forward to it as well.
0:21.8	We had a great one. Very relevant conversation today.
0:25.0	First of all, it is the Saturday before Christmas. It's Festivist. It's, I don't know what it is to you.
0:32.4	But we should all be celebrating and focused on
0:35.8	dialed into the name of next week and what it stands for we are headed into Taint Week.
0:43.3	I don't care if you are someone who celebrates Hanukkah,
0:46.8	Kwanza, Christmas, Satan coming down the chimney,
0:50.5	the Winter Solstice.
0:51.8	This is a secular holiday. We are all in the same place
0:55.9	between Christmas and New Year's. It doesn't have a name. It should. I've named it
1:01.3	it's Taint Week. It doesn't have a well articulated mission or definition or explanation for what should happen during this week here and around the world.
1:13.4	Shouldn't just be an American thing.
1:14.9	But we work hard.
1:16.2	We're mostly capitalists, whether we want to be or not.
1:19.4	We feel guilty when we're not working.
1:21.4	This is the week to really not do anything. If you want to
1:26.6	work you get more done this week fine but if you don't want to do anything at all you
1:30.9	don't want to exercise you don't want to work you don't want to exercise, you don't want to work, you don't want to
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