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For more information, please visit us on the web at nfradioreading.org. Hi, this is Nick, and for the next few minutes I'll be reading from today's newspaper comics in the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service.

We begin as always on this, Thursday, September 10th, 2026 with high and lows.

Ditto says, life is like a jar of cookies.

He's convinced that one of these days he's gonna hook a lunker big enough to yank him right out of his boat.

As we see Ernie has a snorkel gear on.

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But there are enough people in direct talks with the people at Lucasfilm that the comic book section I think is going to continue to improve.

But in that section, like I said, when you go to comic strips, I think...

Oh, the one stuff I didn't show you, oh baby, was the, [clears throat] uh, let me see if I have it.

I, I don't think I, I, I don't think I shared it with you guys.

$10.

His pay per night doing stand-up at New York City's Comic Strip while studying acting at NYU.

Three, films with Drew Barrymore.

He co-starred with Pal Barrymore in 1998's The Wedding Singer, 2004's 51st Dates, 2014's Blended.

I do this two nights in a row.

I'd go to Dangerfields, go to the comic strip from the comic strip.

I'd go to catch from catch.

I'd go to Cafe Wah.

From Cafe Wah, I would do The Cellar, back to Cafe Wah, back to Dangerfields, back to Catch, back to Comic Strip, and then Catcher, not the Improv, you Catch.

And I would do that two nights in a row.

So I did almost 20 shows before I did a TV show.

But it could also be an interesting challenge to work in a smaller space and let big shapes sort of inhabit that smaller space.

So I was thinking about how you make comic strips.

Do your strips usually have like four or five panels in them? Do you have a standard for how you do it?

Yeah, it kind of depends on the story or the gag.

Um, but I always varied it because life varies and the scene might vary.

Um, but typically three side note on that too.

It was always done as all comic strips, much larger and then got reduced, um, for, for publishing in a, in a newspaper or wherever it's going to be.

Oh, that's interesting.

Yesterday, um, I don't know how we got on this topic.

We were talking about comic strips, and, uh, someone mentioned Mary Worth garbage.

You mentioned Mary Worth.

You mentioned it.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

As, as comic strips go, it is, um, one of the longest-running ever.

What purpose does an unfunny comic strip serve?