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| x Bill Hicks |
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Black comedy | Caroline's | Ninja Bachelor Party |
William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was a seminal American stand-up comedian and social critic. His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, aiming to "enlighten people to think for themselves." Hicks used a ribald...
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| x Gilbert Gottfried |
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Caroline's |
Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian and actor whose trademark is a distinctively loud, obnoxious, rasping, grating voice. He has played numerous roles in film and television, perhaps most notably voicing the...
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| x Colin Quinn |
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Sketch comedy | Caroline's |
Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an Irish-American stand-up comedian and writer, best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, as co-host of MTV's wildly popular late-1980's gameshow Remote Control and as host of Tough Crowd...
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| x Jerry Seinfeld |
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Observational comedy | Caroline's |
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American comedian, actor and writer, whoms style is often described as observational comedy. Aside from being a stand-up comedian, he is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of...
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| x Mitch Hedberg |
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Observational comedy | Caroline's |
Mitchell Lee Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. Hedberg's comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes, and observational...
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| x Zach Galifianakis |
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Zacharius Knight "Zach" Galifianakis (born October 1, 1969) is a Greek-American comedian and actor, known for numerous film and television appearances including his own Comedy Central Presents special. He is known for his unconventional stand-up...
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| x Adele Givens |
Adele Givens is an African American actress and comedian from Chicago, Illinois. She currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
In 2001, she hosted The Source's Hip Hip Awards Preshow which was shown on UPN. Givens was the 1989 Grand Prize Winner of...
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| x Chelsea Handler |
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Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975) is an American stand-up comedian, humorist, television host, actress, and best-selling author. She has her own late-night talk show, Chelsea Lately, on the E! Cable Television Network. In 2009, she won a...
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| x Cory Kahaney |
Cory Kahaney (born 1963) is an American comedian. She competed in the first season of NBC's reality television show Last Comic Standing.
Cory was a grand finalist and runner-up in season one of NBC's Last Comic Standing. She has had her own comedy...
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| x Ellen DeGeneres |
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Observational comedy |
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and is also a judge on American Idol, having joined the show in its ninth...
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| x Heather Fink |
Heather Fink is a comedy writer in New York City. She maintains the website www.heatherfink.com.Born and raised in New Jersey, she currently resides in Hoboken, NJ and hosts Hoboken Comedy Night.She attended The George Washington University and...
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| x Janeane Garofalo |
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Observational comedy | Housekeeping |
Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer, and former co-host on Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo continues to circulate regularly within New York City's local...
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| x Joan Rivers |
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Rabbit Test |
Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky; June 8, 1933) is an American comedian, actress, talk show host and businesswoman. She is known for her brash manner and loud, raspy voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent, and numerous cosmetic...
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| x Judy Gold |
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Judy Gold (born November 15, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. She has also been involved in many projects in various roles,...
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| x Judy Tenuta |
Judy Tenuta (born November 7, 1956, in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American entertainer, comedienne, and accordionist.
Tenuta's act is primarily structured around an exaggerated, offbeat persona that is referred to primarily as "The Love Goddess."...
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| x Kaitlin Colombo |
Kaitlin Colombo (born April 21, 1986) is an American stand-up comedian, television personality, writer, and actress. She is perhaps best known for her brief but noteworthy audition for the fourth season of NBC's reality series Last Comic Standing,...
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| x Kate Clinton |
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Kate Clinton (born November 9, 1947) has been an American comedian for over 25 years, specializing in political commentary from a gay/lesbian point of view. She was born in Buffalo, New York. She grew up Catholic in New York State and taught high...
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| x Kathleen Madigan |
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Kathleen Madigan (born September 30, 1965, in Florissant, MO, USA) is an American comedienne.
She has appeared on Last Comic Standing, I Love the 90s: Part Deux, and Celebrity Poker Showdown. She has also starred in her own popular HBO Half-Hour...
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| x Kathy Griffin |
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Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, media personality, and LGBT rights advocate. A self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity", Griffin first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of...
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| x Kathy Najimy |
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Kathy Ann Najimy (born February 6, 1957) is an American actress, most notably known as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica's Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of...
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| x Lea DeLaria |
Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedienne, actress, and jazz musician. The "famously controversial" DeLaria was "the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier" with her 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show....
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| x Lily Tomlin |
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Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy...
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| x Lisa Lampanelli |
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Insult comedy | New York Friars' Club |
Lisa Lampanelli (born Lisa Lampugnale; July 19, 1961), often referred to as Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean, is a Grammy-nominated American stand-up comedian and insult comic. She is noted for her extremely racy and raunchy style of comedy, which...
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| x Lisa Landry |
Lisa Landry (born August 5, 1977) is an American stand-up comedian.
She grew up in Harvey, Louisiana. She is a Cajun and was born a Catholic, although she is now a convert to Judaism.
Landry starred in her own half-hour special "Comedy Central...
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| x Lynn Lavner |
Lynn Lavner is an American comedian and musician from Brooklyn, New York. Much of her material is based around the facts that she is Jewish and a lesbian. She is frequently billed as "America's Most Politically Incorrect Entertainer."
Lavner began...
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| x Lynne Koplitz |
Lynne Koplitz is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Born June 13, 1969 in Long Island, New York, USA and raised in Sarasota, Florida. She was host of Telepictures' nationally syndicated dating show Change of Heart, guest host on NBC's Later,...
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| x Maile Flanagan |
Maile Flanagan (born May 19, 1965) is an American actress known for her role as the protagonist ninja Naruto Uzumaki in Naruto, Geri O'Flanagan in 3Way and Janet in Yes Man.
Maile (pronounced My-leh) is her middle name, a Hawaiian word for the green...
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| x Marga Gomez |
Marga Gomez (born June 19, 1960, in Manhattan, New York) is a Puerto Rican/Cuban-American comedian, playwright, and humorist. She is openly lesbian.
Gomez got her start in the gay comedy clubs of San Francisco in the mid 1980s, including the...
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| x Margaret Cho |
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Character comedy |
Moran "Margaret" Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, gay icon, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems,...
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| x Maria Bamford |
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Maria Bamford (born September 3, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy routine involving jokes about her apparent depression and loneliness. Her comedy style also...
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| x Marilyn Martinez |
Marilyn Martinez (February 9, 1955 – November 3, 2007) was a Hispanic American stand up comedian and actress. She was a regular performer at The Comedy Store in Hollywood.
She appeared in numerous television comedy specials including 1st Amendment...
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| x Mary Anne Nichols |
Mary Anne Nichols is an American comedian from Delaware who describes herself as "The National Poster Girl for Menopause".
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| x Minnie Pearl |
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Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 - March 4, 1996), known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was a country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969...
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| x Moms Mabley |
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Jackie “Moms” Mabley (19 March 1894 – 23 May 1975) was an American standup comedienne and a pioneer of the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of African-American vaudeville.
Mabley was born Loretta Mary Aiken into a large family of twelve children in...
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| x Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson |
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Mo'Nique (born Monique Imes; December 11, 1967) is an American television hostess, comedian, and actress.
Mo'Nique was born in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland. She is one of four children born to Alice Imes and Steven Imes Jr. Mo'Nique...
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| x Nia Vardalos |
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Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Greek-Canadian-American actress, screenwriter and producer.
Vardalos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is the daughter of Greek Canadian parents Doreen, a bookkeeper and...
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| x Paula Poundstone |
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Improvisational comedy |
Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, well-known for her self-deprecating style and masculine dress sense.
Poundstone was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and her family moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, when she was...
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| x Phyllis Diller |
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Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver; July 17, 1917) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and comedienne, considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed...
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| x René Hicks |
René Hicks is an African American comedian. She has appeared on Comedy Central's Comedy Central Presents and in numerous college shows. She was twice named NACA Comedy Entertainer of the Year, in 1995 and 1997. Hicks is also a former accountant and...
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| x Rita Rudner |
Rita Rudner (born September 17, 1953) is an American comedienne, writer and actress.
Rudner was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Frances, a homemaker, and Abe Rudner, a lawyer. Her mother died when she was 13. After graduating from high...
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| x Roseanne Barr |
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MC Roseanne Cherie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and television producer and director.
Barr won both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on Roseanne. In addition, she has won...
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| x Rosie O'Donnell |
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Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, author and media personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer...
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| x Rosie Tran |
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Rosie Tran (born 11 January 1984 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American stand-up comedienne, actress, and writer.
Rosie Tran was born and raised in Algiers, New Orleans to Vietnamese immigrants. Her father is a retired biomedical engineer and...
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| x Sandra Bernhard |
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Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. She is also...
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| x Sarah Silverman |
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Character comedy |
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is a Jewish American comedienne, writer, actress, singer, and musician. Although usually credited as Sarah Silverman, she is sometimes credited by her nickname, Big S. Her satirical comedy addresses...
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| x Sommore |
Sommore (born Lori Ann Rambough on May 15, 1966) is an actress and comedian from Trenton, New Jersey. She is the half sister of actress Nia Long.
Sommore has appeared on various shows including Def Comedy Jam, Showtime at the Apollo, Comicview, and...
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| x Susie Essman |
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Susan "Susie" Essman (born May 31, 1955) is an American stand-up comedienne and comic actress in television and films. She is best known for her role as Susie Greene, the verbally abusive wife of Larry David's manager on the HBO show Curb Your...
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| x Suzanne Westenhoefer |
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Suzanne Westenhoefer (born March 31, 1961 in Columbia, Pennsylvania) is an out lesbian stand-up comedian. She starred as a panelist on GSN's 2006 remake of I've Got a Secret, which featured a panel of gay celebrities who had to guess the various...
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| x Tig Notaro |
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Tig Notaro is an American stand-up comic. "Tig" is a nickname, bestowed upon her by her brother when both were children. Her great great grandfather was the mayor of New Orleans.
Notaro was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She was raised in Pass...
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| x Totie Fields |
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Totie Fields (May 7, 1930 - August 2, 1978) was an American comedienne who was not afraid to poke fun at her own weight problems.
Totie Fields was married to George William Johnston Jr. She had two daughters, Jody and Debbie.
Fields was born Sophie...
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| x Wanda Sykes |
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Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American writer, stand-up comedian and actress. She is known for her blunt comedic observations on current events, the differences between the sexes and races, and the human condition. She is known for her role...
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| x Wendy Liebman |
Wendy Liebman (born February 27, 1961 in Manhasset, New York) is an American stand-up comedian known for her distinctive style which includes quick, clever follow-ups after her jokes. She starts the joke leading it to one direction then changes it....
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| x Whoopi Goldberg |
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Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedienne, singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in...
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| x Alan King |
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Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of...
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| x Allan Havey |
Allan Havey (born 19 September 1954) is an American stand-up comic and actor. He started his career as a comedian in New York City in 1981. He made his national debut in 1986 on Late Night with David Letterman and made several appearances on the...
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| x Andrew Dice Clay | Character comedy |
Andrew "Dice" Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957) is an American comedian. Clay was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Doris and Fred Silverstein, who worked in real estate sales. In 2002, he divorced his wife and focused in...
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| x Andy Bumatai |
Andy Bumatai is a Hawaii based comedian and actor.
Bumatai began his career opening for popular Hawaiian comedian Frank De Lima and soon found himself replacing the late Rap Raplinger in Booga Booga, Hawaii's seminal sketch comedy group. He went on...
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| x Andy Dick |
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Danny Roane: First Time Director |
Andrew R. "Andy" Dick (born December 21, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, musician and TV/film producer.
Dick was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was adopted at birth by Sue and Allen Dick, a naval officer. As a child, he lived in...
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| x Andy Kaufman |
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Character comedy |
Andrew Geoffrey (Andy) Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in...
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