Carolina QuotesHBO used to do a thing in Bryant Park where you'd face the library, and they would have comics on-stage, live, and no censorship (during afternoons in the summer). … And it's spectacular to be able to yell the word fuck and throw it out and have it hit the library and bounce back at you. … It's really—it's like heaven.
Lewis Black Carolinian
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From his interview with Kevin Pollak for the documentary film Misery Loves Comedy (2015)
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- 2015
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