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Dennis Perrin is the only person I know who is as obsessed as I am with the comedy of the 1970s. Actually, who am I kidding? For all the best reasons, Dennis is MORE obsessed than I am, as anyone who has ever picked up his tremendous biography of NatLamp/SNL stalwart Michael O’Donoghue can attest. (The book is called Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghueand you should read it if you haven’t.) Anyway, Dennis is plunging back into the NYC standup scene after a long hiatus, and writing (very well) about this experience on his blog. Check out the entries here and here.

By the way, I think the “crowd of young white kids [that] were streaming in to see a sketch show at 11″ might’ve been some students from The Yale Record out for a night in New York. Ah, to be 20 and below Houston again! Even the urine smelled picturesque!