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>> no. in no way! that's exactly how i sound when i do stand-ups with snakes. >> is that right? >> yes. they got me. coming up in "the skinny" -- who got snubbed at emmy nominations and what is martha stewart doing with a drone? first, one baby's first moments captured on camera. it's a delivery you have to see to believe. you're watching "world news now." ♪ baby baby baby thought you'd always be mine ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by tide pods. ♪ baby, baby ooh ♪ those are fond memories, but those things are amazing. once i saw what they did, i actually st...

On the rise. it is raising some big concerns here. jake? >> miguel, can i just -- i don't mean to make light of it, you're standing in a field of marijuana. is there any effect on you at all? any contact high? >> reporter: no, no, it smells -- in the next room there, you have the buds. you would sigh giant buds. this does not effect you. it's only once you ingest it somehow it affects you. we were at a pot party yesterday where there was a lot of secondhand smoke. that was probably a bit of an effect, but this is not. >> i just thought your stand-ups were remarkably cogent. but apparently no r...

And tie. phil has a t-shirt. jenna: he looks in his element. comfortable, cool. i like it. >> reporter: we're keeping our eyes out. jon: tough duty when somebody has there. jenna: with the people on the beach. jon: government shutdown dominating news media this week. media analyst focusing big debate on the topic. is it huge or hype? howard kurtz points to headline on the left-leaning "huffington post" homepage. things like, kids with: cancer blocked from clinical trials. search for missing woman put on hold. national parks closed. he points to bill crystal, editor of "the weekly standard" who...

Comics who don't want to be self-deprecating anymore but they're still -- elaine boozeler said when she went on "the tonight show," she injected her show with all these self-deprecating jokes she did not want to do. it was imposed on them for a while because that's the way you wanted to see it. through the 1980s you had a lot of female stand-ups getting famous. there were attractive women who did stand-up back then. they just weren't necessarily the ones getting sitcoms, getting, you know, a lot of attention or, you know, attractive and beautiful. there's a feeling you have to be vulnerable on...

No more figures of speech over here. just concrete language. there's lots of incredible funny women from tina fey to sarah silverman, even the sweetly violence women i work with every day. >> really? >> really? >> all right. really. anyway, i don't want to live in a world without women came medians and neither does our next guest. the author of we kill the rise of women in american comedy. welcome, my sister. >> thanks for having me. >> so you can talk about smftd special challenges that women who want to enter comedy will face? >> i think i have to look at stand up and sketch a as two differe...