July 2010
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Brother, Can You Spare an Opener?
In Philadelphia I got very comfortable doing longer sets where I could stretch my act out and build a rapport with the crowd over time. For some reason, it felt better to build to a crescendo than to go out and kick the audience in the teeth from the first joke. In some embarrassing way, [...]
Stop it.
I got raped by AIDS, so I had to get an abortion. A BLACK abortion! This is the tragedy of the new comedian. I see this guy all the time. He’s twenty years old, he grew up in the suburbs, and he hasn’t really figured out what makes him interesting yet. So instead of searching [...]
