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Sam Kinison

I can’t explain how revolutionary this routine was when HBO and Rodney Dangerfield unleashed it on the world in the mid 80’s My guitar teacher basically described the routine to me in graphic detail

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The Inspiration for Tony Clifton

This is from Bob Zmuda’s book about Andy Kaufman (copyrighte violation) it is a little profane and very out there. Mr. X turned out to be Norman Wexler, who wrote the screenplay for Saturday

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What would Bill Hicks say

I was actually published in this book. They collected people’s attempts to do a Bill Hicks’ routine if he were alive today. These were the ones I submitted and had published.

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My first firing

God knows why, but I thought that getting fired from this job was practically the end of any possible future employment. Actually, it was just a  sign of things to come.

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How to instantly be an outcast

Here’s a good recipe for it. I was always about two years smarter than my actual age and about two years behind in my physical age. Thank God I never wound up like that

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More John Cusack Stalking

We just talked about Say Anything now to Hi Fidelity. It’s on VH1 Classic right now. Not good timing for me. I don’t know how I missed this, but he’s a raging stalker in this

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Mr. Pitiful

Like me Otis was making fun of himself, but that didn’t mean that he didn’t also mean it too.

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