Taylor Tomlinson gets ready to launch After Midnight

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Callaroga Shark Media CBS profile Taylor Thomlinson. Now, I live in a world

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where many things can be concurrently true
at once. On the one hand,

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Taylor Thomlinson is wonderfully funny, super
talented, going to be a great host

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of After Midnight, and a comedian
you should pay attention to. Also,

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what could be concurrently true is After
Midnight airs on CBS, which kind of

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motivates CBS to profile Taylor Thomlinson.
If you're familiar with Tomlinson's story so far,

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she retold her for the CBS crowd
and said, I grew up super

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sheltered and very Christian. I didn't
even really know what stand up wasn't until

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like middle school. All my jokes
have really been rooted in my real life.

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When I first started, obviously I
was very clean. I was sixteen

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years old, very sheltered. I
mean I hadn't dated, I had had

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sex, I hadn't done much of
anything, and so I think the jokes

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I were doing were probably a pretty
observational and be very self deprecating, probably

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to like a point where it might
have been a little sad. Actually,

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Taylor lost her mother to cancer at
the age of eights and says, I

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started writing jokes about losing my mom
when I was much younger, but they

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were very like hit or miss as
far as how often they would work,

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because I was doing them, you
know, on sunset Friday night, and

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everybody was like, we're kind of
here trying to get laid. As for

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the new gig, she says,
the thing I'm most nervous about is the

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social aspect of it and how many
people I'm going to be interacting with,

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because that's a skill. It doesn't
come to me naturally. But again,

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I feel like I'm in a place
now where it's something that I'm better at

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and want to continue to keep getting
better at, and it's the thing I'm

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most nervous about. Really Enough After
Midnight premiere is Tuesday. She also has

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a new special coming out on Netflix, Taylor Tomlinson's Haven't All That'll be out

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February thirteenth, Esquire profiled Gary Gulman. Gary had the best special of twenty

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twenty three. In my opinion,
Their mind is that about five years ago

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Gary turned himself into something of a
Twitter comedy guru. On the morning of

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December thirty, first, twenty eighteen, he was having coffee with his wife

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and he posed the question, what
do you think people do if I offered

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a comedy tip every day next year. She liked the idea, so he

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tweeted out he was going to do
it, and then for three hundred and

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sixty six consecutive days, Gary came
up with fresh pieces of advice and every

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once in a while strong opinions about
what not to do as a comedian.

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The first tip January first, twenty
nineteen was record every set the hard part.

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Listen to it and transcribe everything you
want to say. Again, it's

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sometimes depressing, but it gets you
to do the hardest part, which is

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to sit down and writes. Usually
you'll think of something to add or change.

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This works for me. That is
great advice. Gary Goldman. Tip

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number six is that words with the
sound buff uh and cus, especially at

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the beginning end, or funnier.
No one knows why Buick is funnier than

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Nissan. I learned this early.
I assumed everyone new. They don't.

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Kathleen Madigan spoke to Tulsa World and
said, my dad didn't know I was

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left handed until I was fifty two. That gives you an idea of what

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I'm talking about. We were fishing
and he's like, why do you keep

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doing that? Why do you keep
switching hands like that? And I go

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because it's a right handed reel,
and he goes, you're left handed,

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and I'm like, yeah, since
the day we met. He says,

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well, you golf right handed,
and I said, because I didn't want

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to learn how to golf, and
you said, use the clubs in the

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garage, so I used my brother's
clubs. Kathleen says that her parents didn't

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take the comedy thing seriously. I
was only twenty three when I left for

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the road, maybe twenty two,
I don't really remember. I was like,

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I'll give it five years. If
it doesn't work, I'm sure at

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twenty seven I can regroup. It's
not like I'm forty seven. I'm gonna

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quit a good job. I probably
made thirty eight grand a year at that

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magazine, and I still bartended for
real money. I made way more money

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boardtending. As we're making comedy a
career. Kathleen says, like, yes,

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I probably thought when I was making
more than my rent comfortably, I

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thought, okay, this is good, and I could do the clubs till

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you know, whenever I'm sixty,
and then I could go work at a

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bar, t'll sixty five and get
on social Security and stuff. I mean,

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I really looked at it like a
job. A friend always looks at

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it like it's art. I'm just
too Midwest and too practical for that.

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I'm like, no, still a
job, and you still have to have

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enough money to make a living.
When you're making two fifty a week as

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an opening act, that's not a
living, that's a hobby that brings you

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beer money. So I think once
I got to the point where I had

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the whole year booked out in front
of me, and I knew the money

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was decent enough for me, I
thought, Okay, this is cool.

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Thels A World asked Kathleen. Is
there an art to picking an opening act?

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She said, I don't think there's
an art to it, but there's

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a sensibility about it. You have
to be practical. There's one guy I

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really like, but he's not right
for my audiences. And the better he

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gets, the more he's not right
right for them. He can get political

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and challenging and all that. I
pick the good time Charlie's the ones that

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are just silly and funny, and
I really work hard at picking good openers.

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I've had that discussion with other comedians
where they're like, I don't care

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omens, and I'm like, I
care because A these people pay and they

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shouldn't be forced to sit here and
listen to somebody that's inappropriate or not funny,

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and b it sets the tone.
Pete Holmes got very introspective when speaking

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to Collider. Pete said, becoming
a parent is a death, and I

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mean that in a good way.
It's a change, especially for a woman

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who really goes through that physical transformation. The part of you that's not a

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parent goes away, and then the
part of you that's a parent arrives just

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as suddenly as the other one left, and it's a transformation. The way

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that I've sort of thought about it
is way more interesting. It's deeply healthy,

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especially for comedian whose job is to
sort of display as wares of personality

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and his thoughts and his feelings and
stuff. Left unchecked, you could become

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like a gollum. I thought I
was the star of the movie, like

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most of us do in our youth. It's a movie about you. It

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fades in every morning when you wake
up, it fades to the credits every

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night when you go to bed.
When you have a baby, you're like,

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oh no, I'm a supporting character. The movie didn't even start until

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Lila was born. There's a line
in the movie Interstellar that says, as

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a parent, it's your job to
become the memories of your child. That

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is a great line. Pete continued, I don't mean to disparage anyone else's

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comedy, but the comedians that have
kids, or that have something outside of

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themselves, even if it's not a
child, that's very important consuming for them.

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I prefer that to jokes about weed
and Xbox. That's just gonna be

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a preference I have. In my
forties, Samuel spoke to the pitt News

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and they asked him if he had
any memories of Pittsburgh, and sam said,

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one that definitely sticks out to me
is that had a morning show appearance

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where I really I've never ticked off
a morning show that much of my life.

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I was on two hours of sleep
and I was in kind of mood.

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They asked me, so, have
you always been funny? And I

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said, with a straight face,
no. As a young kid, my

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uncle was funny, and he molested
me. Then I was funny. It

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was like Spider Man. I delivered
that line very straight faced. They didn't

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know what to do with it.
They kind of froze because it was live

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TV, and I think he said
something like, Okay, I don't know

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what to do with that. Tips
for up and coming comedians from Sam Morrel

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Live, try to live and try
to have experiences. Write constantly. You

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need to constantly write and constantly try
to get on stage if you want stand

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up. When I started, there
wasn't TikTok. At the risk of sounding

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old as hell, I was sending
comedy clubs, VHS's and DVDs to get

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booked, which took a long time. Holy crap, I'm not that old,

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but I guess I am. What
it's say is maybe you're good on

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one of those or on TikTok or
Instagram, and you're good at sketches or

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jokes. The world is there for
you to make jokes at if you want

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to pursue this. I once heard
Bill bur say, be careful posting your

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first few sets on social media,
because do any of us want to see

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de Niro's first audition. It kind
of kills the mistique of de Niro.

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The New York Times spoke to Susi
Eddie Azart about her getting into politics.

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The conversation went here, with his
Art saying comedy is not a good political

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weapon. There are people doing anti
trans comedy, maybe because they would have

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laid into other areas and now they're
feeling it's a fair game to attack trans

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people. I don't know why.
So they asked Eddie about Dave Chappelle.

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The answer, I don't want to
get into a scrap. I think Dave

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is very talented, and I've met
him and when we met and it was

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great. The Times asked Chapelle said, I'm curious how you understand that material.

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There are a lot of people doing
anti gay men and anti lesbian woman

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material at the moment, Eddie said, not so much. I don't think.

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Twenty years ago, yeah, before
marriage, there was a lot of

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oh my god, we've gone to
with a tipping point. When I came

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out in eighty five, how many
discussions, how many jokes were there about

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being trans? None? Now the
discussions are happening. It's interesting why some

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people just say trans not just LGBTQ. Plus it's quite a wide arena,

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and they're just concentrating on one part
of it. It's sad that people feel

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they want to attack it. Why
not attack power groups rather than vulnerable people.

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Some people like to do that.
You de spare about the little parts

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of humanity, but most of humanity
is good. I knew I was transgender

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when I was five, and I
didn't tell anyone for a long time.

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Think of the negative mental health I
came out of twenty three, Think of

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the positive mental health since then.
It's a good thing. Be honest,

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be open, let's talk about it. I didn't notice that the Times referred

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to the comedian as Eddie in this
one. I believe that she's going by

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Susie these days, and I know
why I went back and forth there.

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Her website is eddie azor dot com. So that said, the last time

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that that website was updated was December
of twenty twenty, so I don't know.

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Mindy Rickles talked about her dad,
Don Rickles legacy with the National Comedy

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Center. Mindy says Don was a
very loving dad. He never insulted us,

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and he started something with this insult
humor, but it was always done

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in a way that was kind in
his act, he always sang a song

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I'm a nice guy to show the
audience that even though he was insulting them,

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it was done with warmth and a
little bit of kidding in it.

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He always made a joke keep my
name alive, Mindy, So this definitely

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does that. Meaning the Don Rickles
exhibit at the Comedy Center, just to

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know his memory is alive for my
kids and their kids to come and the

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fans. I mean, I'm so
happy for the fans they'll be able to

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go and see something like that.
Mindy says there's a YouTube channel called at

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Don Rickles featuring some of her dad's
shows. I didn't know that. That's

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cool. And if you can't be
bothered to go to comedy club, what

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if the comedian comes to you.
Howie Wayfish is the founder of House Calls

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gatherings. How He says, if
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at the foot of someone's bed.
This will run you between seven hundred and

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