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I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

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Janeane Garofalo
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 28
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Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.
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