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Laughing in the storm: Comics don’t shy from Sandy

And Attell used Sandy to mock a heckler, telling him: “You must have been a load of laughs without power.”

At another point, Attell looked for positives in the storm.

“There’s nothing better than Doomsday sex,” he said.

Mecurio said he has made a point of including the storm and the havoc it caused whenever he takes the stage.

“I feel like as a comedian in the spirit of social satire, it’s what we’re supposed to do,” he said. “It’s the elephant in the room. How do you not do it?”

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