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Berman builds his long routines forward and backward from initial jokes, as in his newest piece, which grew around a forlorn conventioner who is afraid that if he loses his name badge, no one will talk to him.

Moreover, this was the centenary of Freud's birth, and thousands drawn from the conventioner's and the public milled in iconolatrous rapture around a devoutly assembled collection of Freudiana�busts, portraits, manuscripts, letters.