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Full disclosure: I know Chip Chinery. We both grew up in Cincinnati and we both got our “start” doing stand-up comedy as teenagers at a tiny, hole-in-the-wall comedy club named d.w. eye at the onset of the burgeoning 80’s comedy club boom.
What separates Chip’s memoir from other comedy biographies is the almost obsessive level of detail he provides in recounting his experiences as a young, Candide-like stand-up comic “finding himself” on the difficult and lonely midwestern comedy circuit road. (And yes, familiar comedy faces start to pop up regularly.) While dense with detail, this endearing memoir provides a hilarious,…
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