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Saturday, November 9, 2019

Dying is easy, comedy is hard. (Or, to paraphrase Chris Rock, life is long, not short, if you make the wrong decisions.)

Post-#MeToo, I bet Woody Allen really does regret not being someone else.


And even though Louis CK's FX series, Louie, aired its most recent episode in 2015, it ultimately wasn't up to him whether he kept doing the show or not.

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