The phone-comedy discussion followed a scene in which Julie Kessler and Billy Epstein, the proudly embittered struggling comedians played by Klausner and Eichner, confront an up-and-coming digital creator.
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Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Aug. 2026
Cook would go on to become one of the most popular comedians of the early 2000s, while McCauley took on a job as a corrections officer and would later handle his brother’s finances directly.
There are Jewish jokes and Jewish jokesters and Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters.
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Cathleen Schine,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
The Harvard jokesters’ ad noted that a $10 million reward is being offered for the return of the 13 missing masterpieces that were taken from the Boston museum 35 years ago.
The two buffoons shave her head, chain her in the basement of a messy remote home and then accuse her of being an alien.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
But times have changed, and this team of buffoons is forced to grapple with changing industry ethics and sensationalist journalism in its transition, all while Ron faces an identity crisis that challenges his bravado, his massive ego.
Holden eagerly rebels against Pencey Prep, gets the boot, and flees to New York City, a place with its own vices and hazards, but without the sort of propaganda and pretense that obscure the school’s dark underside.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Aug. 2026
The long-standing problem is that Skid Row is both a social service center and a mecca of drugs and other vices, with traps on every block.
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