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The Importance of Drinking Water Between Shows
HBO wanted an hour of stand up that would be a blueprint for a TV show. It didn't go anywhere. There was also the stunt in it of drinking four pints of Guinness in a half hour. And I had to do two recordings the same night. This is so I could sober up between shows. Between shows, I drank gallons of water. By the end of the second show, my stomach was like, hard as a rock. I'm so full of liquid and a drop of beer came out of my nose. That's impossible to imagine today that they would be like, we're just spending money for no reason. No, you go make a show and bring it
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