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To understand Ludella Hahn deeply is to appreciate the "straight man" (or straight woman) in the comedy equation. History often remembers the wild ones, the Red Skeltons who break the props and fall down. But without the wall for the ball to bounce off of, the physics of comedy do not work.
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V. Implications and Applications
