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How Comedy Became a Lifeline with Will and Kristin Flanary (The Glaucomfleckens)

The Nocturnists

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The Beginnings of Medical Comedy

I don't remember a lot of my material, honestly. It wasn't until I got to med school when I was studying what the Krebs cycle all day and writing jokes about that that I started to explore the medical comedy a little bit more. He also got his first cancer diagnosis during medical school so he did a set about having cancer at an open mic where people were kind of like not sure is it okay to laugh? Like that joke was funny. Can we laugh at that? So that's the first one I really remember of. Looking back, that's kind of, I think the beginning of the style of humor that you use now.

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