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Scott Myers has paid tribute to Mystery Man over the past weekend and if you haven’t read it yet, make sure you go there after reading this. Since the news of his passing, fans have been posting, emailing and tweeting asking “Who Was Mystery Man”? Ironically, his very last post here was titled “Who Is … Read more
Next Saturday it would have been 100 days since I last heard from MM. When I reflected on this last week, I realized he had never been completely silent for that long. Today I received the sad news our dear friend passed away. I had the honor and the privilege of corresponding with MM behind … Read more
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Let’s start off with a test. A Comedy Perception Test, to see if we’re perceiving comedy with 20-20 vision. Below are 7 sentences, seven word-pictures. They don’t mean anything other than what they are. There’s no back story. Read carefully. A. Man slipping on a banana peel. B. Man wearing a top hat slipping on a … Read more