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Hosted by Rob Long Feb. 10, 2010 Arts
The great thing about laughter – and the big reason most of the writers I know got into comedy in the first place – is that it's involuntary.  It erupts – that's what we say: the audience erupted into laughter – from some reptile part of the brain...

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