One night, Valerie was in the audience at the Comedy Store with Brian Seff, their friend from Rick and Ruby, as they watched Robin finish up a set. Robin was holding forth on the strangeness of being famous, and he said to the audience, “There’s girls that just come up to me. I’ve never seen them before, and they’re like, ‘Excuse me, would you—?” At this point in the riff, Robin pointed at his crotch. “He’s saying it like it’s a hardship,” Seff recalled. “And Valerie yells, ‘Oh, you love it.’” There was no question that Robin had heard her remark from the audience because he reacted to it:
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