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Before watching tonight's baseball game there was time to stop by The Comedy Zone for the "New Faces of Stand Up" comedy competition. My friend Dave Fennell was one of the performers. It was the second of six nights of the contest, which continues on the first and third Thursdays of the month until December 21. Dave did a fine job, as I expected. The other aspiring comedians ran the gamut in age and background. One guy from Newport may have only been comprehensible to fellow residents of Cocke County. I heard that the older comic who talked about his angioplasty was the winner two weeks ago. A ventriloquist did some surreal sight gags by removing the head of his dummy. At least it took attention away from his moving lips.