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Anger Management

I made it into the Comedy Notes of the Boston Globe today. Here reprinted is what was said. Click here and here and here and here and scroll down for validation.

Thanks to Nick Zaino for giving me the space.

Anger management

Sean Sullivan can pitch a fit with the precision of a major-league reliever. Sometimes the 22-year-old is a bathroom attendant at a Walsh Brothers performance, stopping the show because someone stole the plate of mints he kept by the sink. Other times, he's an audience plant berating host Dan Sally Thursday nights at the Comedy Studio. Most often, he is earning his nickname ''Napalm" by using his hefty six-foot-plus frame and powerful lungs to elicit uncomfortable laughter.

As a regular on Sally's show, he is sometimes asked to lose his cool at a moment's notice. ''[Sally will] take me aside and go, 'In this next break I just want you to lose your mind and throw a chair.' "

Offstage, Sullivan is more of a gentle Hagrid than an Incredible Hulk. And while his anger is a great comic asset, Sullivan doesn't want his comedy pinned to rage. His new project, ''The Pretty Good Show," is a more mild-mannered affair. ''This is sort of my attempt to, not soften my reputation," he says, ''but to do something completely different that I haven't had the opportunity to do yet."

Starting this week, the first Tuesday of every month Sullivan will use his experience interning at ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien" last year to create his own live talk show, featuring local comedians, musical guests, sketch comedy, and even a warm-up act. The atmosphere will be more relaxed and spontaneous, and Sullivan hopes to gain some insight from guests like veterans Tim McIntire and Rich Gustus.

''I thought I could easily manipulate people who I wouldn't necessarily have the chance to sit down and talk shop with into entertaining me with their stories and perspectives on comedy," he says.

Sullivan has been a familiar face around the Cambridge scene for more than three years, but studying theater at UMass-Amherst made it hard for him to build a reputation. ''I'd be there for like, three months, people would start to recognize my face, and then I'd disappear for nine months," he says. ''Then I'd come back and have to start over."

Sullivan graduated last May, and is looking forward to a year-round comedy career. ''We have a nice little scene, especially over in Cambridge, where sketch is more . . . encouraged," he says.

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