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I think that if you just kind of try to throw together a sketch show, but you don't have any real vision for what you want to do with the sketch, I don't think your chances are very good. You know, Let's just have a sketch show! You have to do something different with it you have to reinvent that form every so often.

Paul F. Tompkins

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Paul F. Tompkins
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 12
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