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With Comedy Central's Insomniac, Dave Attell, set to perform for three days at Uncle Funny's in Davie, New Times decided it would be a good idea to give the man a buzz at his hotel room in Boston to discuss his show, his standup, and life on comedy time.

With what he just drank, you'd be holding your gut too

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October 18 to October 20. Performances are 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday, 9 and 11 p.m. Saturday, and 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20, plus a two-drink minimum. Call 954-474-5653.

Uncle Funny's Comedy Club, 9160 State Rd. 84, Davie

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Q:How have things changed since you started the show?

A: Since we have a couple of weeks down before we start shooting again, it's been good. It's been great! The turnout seems to be pretty good, selling out some rooms and getting a good crowd in there. You know, my kind of crowd. The drinking people.

Q:Do people follow you after the show now?

A: Yeah, and I'm not shooting the show, I'm doing my standup, so I don't know what they're doing.

Q:Are you really a night person, or is that just something you do for the show?

A: No, I've always had trouble sleeping. I'm on comedy time -- you stay up all night and sleep during the day.

Q:Have you always been a night person?

A: Yeah, I realized pretty early I gotta get something going at night. 'Cause otherwise, I'm gonna be unemployed.

Q:Especially with all the boozing, how do you manage to stay up all night throughout the show?

A: What are you, my mom?

Q:I'm just asking! I'd need a couple of pots of coffee, some serious drugs, or something. What's your secret, one lush to another?

A: I drink a lot of coffee. I get something to eat. But it's spaced out -- it's not as much drinking as people think. I drink more in my own life than I do on that show.

Q:Huh. Are there comedy groupies?

A: Not as far as I know. A girl threw her panties at me in San Francisco. It was pretty weird. They were very large panties, though. Shallow Hal-type panties.

Q:Do you still have the panties?

A: I'm wearing them right now.

Q:Aside from getting calls from people like me, how have things changed since you got the show and you're packing houses?

A: It's all good. It's a lot of work, it's a lot of traveling, but I'm not really complaining. Sometimes I'll be in a bar not shooting the show and people will come up to me and go, "Dave, where are the cameras?" That gets a little old. Other than that, my life's pretty much the same. Doing standup and doing the show. Working for Comedy Central, you have to do something else to make coin.