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Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.

Michael Ian Black

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Michael Ian Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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