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arcane1

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9. He's freakin' brilliant

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 12, 2012, 11:11 PM

Jan 2012

That kind of satire is not at all easy. If he were just writing a pamphlet every three months in that persona, I'd still call him brilliant. To have to visually maintain that persona 5 days a week, with no other people on his show except himself, is pure genius.

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