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51. Jim Gaffigan: We Met in 1997 at a Pizzeria

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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Comedy Central - It Was Not Mainstream

When you and i started in the nineties, it actually wasn't main stream. There had been this boom in the eighties, that's right? An where it was so bad that it was a joke on, ah, you know, on the simpsons,. Like, being a stand up comedian was, like, it was ridiculous. And people were like, what? When i did open mikes when i was in college,  half of the people were, i'm like, you're a comedian. This is not viable a and up... I think obama changed everything, you think, for comedy.

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