stackyFACTSThe modern laugh factory has surprisingly tragic origins. Owners of exotic dance venues needed a way to monetize their empty rooms during the daytime, so they threw desperate joke-tellers on the same sticky stages to squeeze pennies out of daytime drinkers.
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