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There’s a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

Doug Stanhope
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"Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter Mcgraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.
There’s a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.