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It doesn’t matter what temperature the room is, it’s always room temperature.
I once put instant coffee in a microwave and went back in time.
Last year for Christmas, I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier…. I thought I’d put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
I woke up this morning and couldn’t [...]

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David Cross is a unique and extremely funny stand up comedian. He is also a comedic actor best known for his role as Tobias Fünke in the brilliant series Arrested Development which was sadly so good and edgy that it was cancelled.
David Cross began his professional television career as a writer on The Ben [...]

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When Dane Cook released his second album, Retaliation, in 2005, he made history. It debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard pop chart, the hottest-selling comedy album since Martin’s Wild and Crazy Guy in 1978. That year was called one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, listed at #34. In November of 2006, he [...]

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A lot is not known about Garry Shandling. The most imprtant thing being that he is a genius and a true pioneer of comedy. There are the comedies before “The Larry Sanders Show” and the comedies after “The Larry Sanders Show”. His top-rated, award-winning show about the trials, tribulations, and double- dealing that goes on [...]

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The legendary comedian Rodney Dangerfield liked young and then unknown Jim Carrey so much, that not only he hired him to perform at The Comedy Store, but also signed him to open his tour performances. Jim Carrey began as a stand up comedian, then continued to share his talent with us in the Wayans Bros [...]

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Can you imagine what it was like to be someone around in the mid 70s, you have already seen your Monty Python, you are desperately searching for something new, something funny, something groundbreaking and then you go to see Steve Martin perform in a comedy club, and soon afterwards in a stadium (yes whole stadiums) [...]

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Bill Bailey is one of the most original comics around today. You’ll probably see him all around tv in QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, sharing his unique style of humor with his friends. He is also a brilliant stand up comedian and a great comedic actor, check out the cult series Black Books, for [...]

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His deadpan cerebral humour and often shocking one-liners have made Jimmy Carr one of the most popular comedians. He is a unique, brilliant comedian, a regural guest on Stephen Fry’s QI, but he also hosts his own shows like Channel4’s 8 out of 10 cats. He’s straight talking, tackles topics most of us are scared [...]

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Eddie Izzard is an English stand up comedian, and actor. And a male lesbian. And an “executive transvestite”, not like the others… He is most famous for his surreal monologues and his unique style of comedy. He is acknowledged and admired by the most important of his peers, Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld and even by [...]

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George Carlin is a living legend. For the last 47 years he’s been doing stand-up comedy better than anyone else, and he is one of the funniest, the edgiest comedian alive today. But the funniest thing about George Carlin is that sometimes you think that he is not a comedian, but one of the last [...]

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