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 | | THE USUAL FREAK SHOW, their reunion engagement with much new material, is bound to once again capture Essmann’s compelling sketches and vivid imagination. |
 | | Not to worry, though, since we still have “The Usual Freak Show,” a consistently funny and big-hearted series of character sketches by Mr. |
 | | Abel Carter, the chipper but closety and vaguely creepy host of "An American Treasury of Song," a Public Access TV show in an unidentified Midwestern American city, is supposed to be talking about the music of ante-bellum America: "Beautiful Dreamer," minstrels, that sort of thing. |
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