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5 Things Oct. 27: Best of Norton Tailgate Party, Comedy and More

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Five Things You Need to Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance. Check back later for more, and let us know what you think of the feature in the comments section. 1. Best of Norton Tailgate Party From 1 to 2:30 p.m. the Norton High School Football Boosters--1st and Ten will host the third annual Best of Norton Tailgate Party prior to the football game at 2:30 p.m. versus Dover-Sherborn. Attendees will vote on the best appetizer, pizza, sandwich, main course and dessert. 2. Comedy by Gary Petersen Comedy Night headlined by Gary Petersen will be held at McMahon’s Countryside Grille 8 p.m. to midnight. Four other comics will also set out to make you laugh. Tickets are $10 in advance and…

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Norton Resident Brings the Laughs Just in Time for Christmas

Andrea Henry and Myq Kaplan co-author children's joke book.

Andrea Henry isn’t your average mom. By day, she’s a college counselor. By night, and whenever she has free time, she’s a writer and comedian bringing the laughs to anyone who will listen. Her latest project resulted in the book “Real Kids’ Jokes by Real Stand-Up Comics.” What do you call someone who was fired from NASA? An Astro-not. What car do cows take to the prom? A liMOOsine. These are just two jokes in the 97-page book, which was co-written by “Last Comic Standing” season seven finalist Myq Kaplan. “He’s a really prolific joke writer,” Henry said of Kaplan. “We just kind of started batting around kids jokes over email and we amassed a couple hundred of them as just part of an exercise and something fun to do and so then we looked …

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