The laughs keep a-comin'.

You might remember Julia Gorin from yesterday's entry on her fun-filled essay about Natalie Portman and that damned colored fella she's shacking up with. Turns out Julia's a stand-up comic too! And wouldn't you know, she blessed us by including one of her latest bits in a recent column:

"At the time of Ronald Reagan's funeral, I had a joke in my stand-up act that went: Seeing that dead ex-presidents get more attention than living ones, Bill Clinton confided to a staff member that he wished he were dead. I even warned audiences that he may try to stage his own death just so he too could have a week-long state funeral for himself. But then, I speculated, he'd let the cat out of the bag, because he wouldn't be able to resist writing a sequel to 'My Life,' called 'My Death.' "

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Enter Molly Shannon: "...Don't get me started."
I guaren-f-ing-tee you that her routine includes jokes about her cats.