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The Boyscast with Ryan Long

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Is There a Disproportional Number of Working Men's Clubs on Comedy?

I was gigging it when I was a teacher in Ipswich, which is a town further north from London. So I was gigging in London at night, but then working during the day as a teacher and I'd get back really late at 2 a.m. And so I was constantly exhausted and constantly tired. If I could have just given up that job and just didn't stand up, that would have been much better, much easier. But yeah, there's a lot of working class comics from that sort of era, whereas now it's different. You can pay for Edinburgh Fringe shows, which costs thousands and thousands of pounds, which you don't make back. That

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