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Why People Need to Start Taking Comedy Seriously

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By John Butler | May 30, 2017
By John Butler | May 30, 2017

Why People Need to Start Taking Comedy Seriously

Handsome Devil writer-director John Butler on the genre's secondary status, and the importance of LGBT stories being fun and funny now too.

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