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" Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period. "

Patton Oswalt

Hate

Early

Years

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Moment

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Hit

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Stupid

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Think

Beginning

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Silence

Live Life

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