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277 – Comedy Against Work (w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley)

Srsly Wrong

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The Comedy Store Strike of 1979 Yeah Yeah Yeah I'm Not Going to Bat for Sami Shores I'll Just Think About It

In 1979 the workers rose up at the comedy store in Los Angeles they rose up against Pauli Shores mother Mitzi Shores. The philosophy that she brought to the club was kind of the opposite of Sami Shores philosophy which was the most famous comedian here gets to go first so it's a kind of if you do that all the time then comedians who aren't famous basically never get to go ever beyond a certain level of fame like you got zero chance of ever being on the stage there in you in he says.

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