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I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...
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Garry Marshall
Age: 81 †
Born: 1934
Born: November 13
Died: 2016
Died: July 19
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