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Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

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Chris Tucker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 31
Actor
Comedian
Film Producer
Atlanta
Georgia
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Transformed
Broke
London
Tramp
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Hurt
Chaplin
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Starving

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