Argus Hamilton is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and host of The Comedy Store Tonight starring Argus Hamilton. Hamilton began his stand-up comedy career at

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. His specialty was to make funny comments on the news of the day.

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called him "the

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of the Baby Boom".

Biography

Argus Hamilton comes from a family of Methodist ministers. He studied at the

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. Hamilton started his comedian's professional career in 1976. In the summer of 1979, he was the first comedian to move in the iconic Cresthill house in Beverly Hills (the house where many comedians from the Comedy Store would crash), and lived there until 1982 when he went to rehab (

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took his room in Cresthill). Hamilton has made a number of appearances on ''

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'' (15 or 20 appearances) and has written for television series such as '' The Richard Pryor Show'' and ''

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''. Hamilton is also a syndicated comedy columnist. He is the host of The Comedy Store Tonight starring Argus Hamilton, a talk show introducing young comics from the Comedy Store. During the 1980s, Argus Hamilton struggled with an addiction to drugs and alcohol.

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