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C.Help perform on the show.

D.Consume some drinks or food.

22.Which number will music fans call for more information?

A. (646) 410-0503. B. (718) 307-7133.

C. (201) 216-2677. D. (516) 367-4584.

23. Which event will people choose to upload their photos?

A.Free Comedy Show.

B.Yelp's Tour Of Jersey City,

C.Chile Pepper Festival 2018.

D.Egypt Woodbury, NY 11797

Wanting his audience to feel a roller coaster of emotions,Neil Simon used his own personal experiences of family pain and sorrow to make light of the banalities (陈词滥调)of human existence.

It was this fine ability to dig his audiences' consciousness that brought him big success. With crowds turning up in groups, in 1966,Simon had four plays running on Broadway at the same time. By 1983,he was named the most notable comedy writer in the English language.

He grew up in a household filled with conflict, often caused by his quarrelsome parents' on-off relationship. When he was seven,Simon began writing comedy as a way of blocking out the "really ugly painful things in my childhood" and through the medium of laughter he escaped the heavy atmosphere at home. Often visiting the cinema,Simon was amused and then inspired by watching Charlie Chaplin and Ernst Lubitsch movies,and with his elder brother Danny created comedy sketches.

Receiving a positive reception, he would go to the local library to read books on famous comedians to help him learn the tricks of the trade. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and studied at New York University, before starting as a clerk at Warner Brothers.

Meanwhile, Simon continued to work on his own plays, developing Come Blow Your Horn which was a fictionalized version of his upbringing. It opened on Broadway in