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They wouldnt have been the same without the Cigarette Smoking Man.

He was expelled after one semester, right around Christmas 1980.
But one Humber instructor saw something in McDonald: William B. Davis.
And he wrote down the phone number for the Second City workshops, McDonald said.

They were ghosted by Theatresports.
), but they hated its needlessly competitive approach to comedy.
That required McDonald to run around the building until he couldnt breathe and the show would get shut down.
They went down to the place where the party was being held, and nobody would let them in.
The Head Crusher was born during a bad date.
McKinney somehow decided that the time was right to revive a childhood habit and birth a catchphrase.
Im crushing your head!
The girls stormed out, but it made me laugh.
The show was saved by the CableACE Awards.
He arranged a showcase audition and briefly swiped a couple of troupe members to write forSNLin the 80s.
It became a cult hit which is to say, very few people watched it.
5.Brain Candycould have been a movie about carnivorous army ants.
McKinney came up with something calledThe Assholeabout an asshole-murdering serial killer.
Foleys idea:Planes Are Crashing,a disaster comedy that involved a chaotic mix-up with air traffic controllers.