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Watch Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Poop On Times Square Costumed Characters
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 3, 2014
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Triumph The Insult Comic Dog returned to the streets of NYC after his hilarious World Cup pooping tour earlier this summer to take on a more local target: the costumed characters of Times Square. He was pretty rough with the much-harangued street performers at first ("You're exactly like the real Spider-Man, except when your senses are tingling, it's bedbugs") in his quest to learn that whether or not liberty costs more than a handjob. But the best part comes when he dons an Elmo costume and gets into a turf war with another Elmo...and then gets his own giant Triumph costume and tries to become a pimp.
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