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Comedy Stars Take Over Red Carpet

Red carpets are always fun and exciting, but also always a little daunting as well as you never know where they’re going to place you, and in what order the celebs are going to arrive and get to where you’re standing. Then you have to worry about over-zealous P.R. people pulling them away sometimes while you’re still talking to them, or that you’ll suddenly have malfunctioning equipment. But none of that bad stuff happened on the red carpet for the Garden of Laughs event at Madison Square Garden...

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