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It wasn't until I was about 14 years old where they would let me into open-mike nights to get up there and tell jokes.
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It wasn't until I was about 14 years old where they would let me into open-mike nights to get up there and tell jokes.
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Mark Anthony: (in a low voice) Sweetheart, this is open-mike.
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Many of them, including Mr. Kasher, got their start at open-mike nights at BrainWash, a cafe and coin-operated laundry in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.
Local Comic Puts His Pain on Paper John Letzing 2012
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It wasn't until I was about 14 years old where they would let me into open-mike nights to get up there and tell jokes.
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Last weekend, I went to an open-mike night at a roadside stand in my neighborhood.
Ellen Galinsky: Seven Ways to Help Your Children Thrive During Summer 2010
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Last weekend, I went to an open-mike night at a roadside stand in my neighborhood.
Ellen Galinsky: Seven Ways to Help Your Children Thrive During Summer 2010
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Local comics who've left for bigger things include Black, Wanda Sykes, Martin Lawrence and Dave Chappelle, who honed his chops by trolling the open-mike nights as a high school student at the District's Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Oswalt, who is also a thriving comedic actor, grew up in Northern Virginia.
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The other part of this that's been the most rewarding for me has been to have women who've never led before, young women and women who are just shy, email me and say, 'I've read your book, I love it, I want to lead an open-mike, I've never done anything like this before -- eek!
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At the open-mike discussion afterward, Mr. Meineck recalls, a veteran stood up.
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