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TIL that Harris Wittels was a writer for the Sarah Silverman show, Parks and Recreation, Eastbound and Down, and Masters of None. Amy Poehler called him the “funniest person [she] ever met”. Harris was also the drummer in the band Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die. Harris died of a heroin overdose in 2015.

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