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Paterson takes a charity skit right to the edge

If comic edge ruled, Gov. David A. Paterson might be proclaimed king. Pushing his ironic gifts into the risky zone late Saturday night, he dropped jaws with his performance at an annual $300-per-seat Albany press charity dinner otherwise remarkable for its scary-small audience. Donning wraparound shades and rolling on stage in a wheelchair, he did his dozens before maybe 150 guests, in a biting...

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