The Short List of Things to Do

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And Here's the Kicker

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Comedy writers — like George Meyer (The Simpsons) and Dan Mazer (Borat) — tend to be depressed, brilliant, erratic and sometimes even funny. Mike Sacks' collection of remarkably frank interviews with 21 of them reads like a secret history of popular culture.

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