Or my satellite service from Sirius, which always seems to go blank at the exact moment when Howard is about to say something funny.

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Did I say something funny?

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"There are tons of people watching like a hawk, waiting for the candidates to say something particularly funny, " he says.

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If people have no original reporting to add, they instead try to come up with something clever or funny to say.

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