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Set in A.C., comics abound in Duane Hopwood

David Schwimmer stars in “Duane Hopwood,” a little movie about a boozy pit boss in Atlantic City, released today. (Read the Chicago Trip review if you like things like that.)

The film is notable in this publication because supporting Schwimmer are standup comics Janeane Garofalo, Judah Friedlander and Dick Cavett and standup comedy empresario Steven R. Schirripa. That, and Friedlander portrays a standup comic in one scene. (If anyone sees it, let us know where the scene lands on the authenticity scale– “Punchline” being zero and “Insert title of movie yet to be made that accurately and sympathetically portrays standup comics here” being ten.)