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A lot of comedy clubs are set up with people sitting at little tables and you have everything from the way they are seated to them ordering or taking a sip of a drink, these can make a comedian go harder and faster in a club.

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John Mulaney
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: August 26
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
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Chicago
Illinois
John Edmund Mulaney
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