Denis Leary Rolls With Cover Page Mistake

Never mind the spaces.

In the July issue of Boston magazine, Denis Leary tells a great Sam Kinison story. We were lucky enough to see Kinison live back in the day, in a similar comedy club setting. Everything in the Leary anecdote jives with our memory of the preacher-turned-punchline-screamer.

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There’s also a pretty funny explanation of why the title of Leary’s current TV series, which returned for a second season June 30, is written the way it is. Boston magazine staff writer Chris Sweeney asked, ‘Why are there so many ampersands and no spaces in Sex&Drugs&rock&Roll?:’

“It was actually a mistake on the cover page of the initial pilot script.

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