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Patrick Coyne is a comedy writer from Philadelphia. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Reductress, and The Hard Times, among others.

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    My Political Career Should Not Be Defined by the One Time I Got My Dick Stuck in a CVS Blood Pressure Machine
    by Patrick Coyne
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    One of Us Always Tells the Truth, the Other Always Lies. Also, Contrary to What You May Have Heard My Penis Is Not Small
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  • April 13, 2023
    TikTok’s Old Age Filter Shows My Wife and Some Other Guy Standing on My Grave
    by Patrick Coyne
  • February 13, 2023
    Candy Heart Messages After Elon Musk Buys Sweethearts for $44 Billion
    by Louie Aronowitz and Patrick Coyne
  • June 29, 2022
    First Drafts of Classic Movie Quotes
    by Louie Aronowitz and Patrick Coyne
  • March 22, 2022
    First Drafts of the Greatest Opening Sentences in Literature
    by Patrick Coyne and Louie Aronowitz
  • January 19, 2022
    Increasingly Convoluted Rules for Ordering a Philly Cheesesteak Like a Local
    by Patrick Coyne
  • July 12, 2017
    CÜCK – The New Furniture Assembly Service From IKEA
    by Patrick Coyne
  • March 20, 2017
    Not to Brag, But I’m Totally Intellectual Enough to Be Brutally Murdered by Fascists
    by Patrick Coyne
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