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Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

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Harold Ramis
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: November 21
Died: 2014
Died: February 24
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Chicago
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Harold Allen Ramis
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