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Short Imagined Monologues
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September 30, 2016An Impassioned Plea From a Gary Johnson Swing State Precinct Captain
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September 29, 2016I Wish I Had More Than Eight Minutes With a Patient to Show Him I Don’t Care If He Lives or Dies
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September 21, 2016I’m Mad as Hell, and I’m Only Going to Put Up With It for Another Ten or Fifteen Years
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September 13, 2016I’m EpiPen and I Haven’t Changed One Bit
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September 9, 2016Son, Don’t Make Any Weird Faces During This Sporting Event or You’ll Probably Become an Internet Meme
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September 8, 2016Hi, I’m a Mentally Ill Person as Portrayed in a Movie!
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August 22, 2016Assuming My Alcohol Ankle Monitor is Off, My Wife’s Incarceration is Over and I Can Get my Swimsuit Fixed, I Plan to Kick Some Ass at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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August 19, 2016A Mother Gives Her 30-Something Daughter “The Talk.”
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August 5, 2016Objection, Your Honor! It’s Time For My Moving, Heartfelt Closing Speech in This Movie About a Trial!
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August 3, 2016I Am Morgma the Mauler, Lord of Your Local Apartment Rentals
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July 29, 2016Donatello Will Have You Know That If the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Were Little Women, Raphael Would Totally Be Amy
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July 26, 2016You’re Damn Right I’m Comfortable Performing These Exit Row Duties
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