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FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Psychiatrist Sketch (2003)

If I'd done anything with this, I'd have probably called it "Going Mental!" or similar

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Liam McEneaney
Sep 25, 2025
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Liam in 2003 writing this sketch in a Williamsburg café

I discovered this sketch in an online collection of my old writing. I wrote this twenty-two years ago for - something, I don’t know what. It could very well have been sa sketch I didn’t have time for in my Liam McEneaney Experience live sketch/video/standup show at the old theater space NBC ran at the Here Theater in Tribeca.

Despite the first sentence of the stage directions, this isn’t quite a first draft. I did some “editing for length and clarity” as publications say when they publish long, rambling crazy person manifestos.

I’ve been kind of toying with the idea of doing a Liam McEneaney Experience! II after I’m done with school. We’ll see. In the meantime, enjoy some classic McEneaney:

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