Thursday , January 23 2025

Bryan Tucker: Freak Show

My favorite part about the state fair is the freak show. You ever see that? Where they have, you know, the Woman With No Head or the Lizard Boy? But where I came from in rural North Carolina, it was kinda different. It was like, ‘Behold — the Woman That …

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Brian Kiley: Related to These People

I’m not too crazy about my relatives. I love my immediate family. But don’t you look at your relatives, and you can’t believe you’re actually related to these people? I give blood four times a year just so I’m less and less related to these people.

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Brian Kiley: My Brother’s Name

When I was a kid, I had this one aunt who used to always call me by my brother’s name — I mean, a million times, every time I saw her. Finally, I just snapped. I said, ‘You are the biggest simpleton idiot pinhead I’ve ever met.’ She got all …

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Brainless Lawyers

In a murder trial, the defense attorney was cross-examining the coroner:“Before you signed the death certificate, did you take the pulse, listen to the heart or check for breathing?”“No.”“So, when you signed the death certificate, you weren’t sure the man was dead, were you?”“Well, the man’s brain was in a …

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Billiam Coronel: SPF

This suntan lotion is confusing me. When I left about 10 years ago to move to New York, the highest suntan lotion number was 15. I get back — you know what it is now? — 45. A flannel shirt is about 30. Who’s this for — vampires? If you …

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