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In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

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John Mulaney
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 26
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Stand-Up Comedian
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John Edmund Mulaney
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I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?
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I think for many of us - speaking for just a pocket of the country - we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don't run home and check the nanny cam. But now we've left the baby with Gary Busey, so we're going to be a lot more on it.
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