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Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of our helplessness in the forces of nature or go insane. And where is he now? Dead.

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Doug Stanhope
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 25
Cabaret Artist
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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