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Video: Paul Rudd's Top Ten Thoughts When A Theatergoer Vomited During His Broadway Show
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Garth Johnston
Published Nov 20, 2012
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Last week a nation of theatergoers got a whole new nightmare when an elderly man at a performance of the new Broadway play Grace threw up over the balcony and all over the orchestra. Impressively, the show's actors didn't acknowledge the incident until the curtain call—the show must go on!—so if you were wondering what was going through star Paul Rudd's mind during the scene you were out of luck. Until now.
Last night Rudd stopped by the Ed Sullivan theater to read the Top Ten list for David Letterman. And what a list the "Top Ten Thoughts That Went Through Paul Rudd's Mind When An Audience Member Vomited During His Broadway Show" is! Our personal favorite is number four ("I'll never complain about a cellphone ringing again") but really they're all pretty great:
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