You can go a long way toward understanding what's in the head and heart of Michael Pritchard with one detail from his resume. In 1980, when he won the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, he was also named California Probation Officer of the Year for his work with kids locked up in juvenile hall. It was the kids, in fact, who persuaded him to try stand-up comedy. If he could get laughs out of hard-core punks like them, they reasoned, he ought to go cash in.
For a while, it looked as if he would. After Pritchard won the comedy competition,...
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