'Burn Down' delivers true American Gothic

San Antonio Current | April 2, 2012
The discomforting cliché that out of bad pain comes good comedy — an assurance that has, in some form or other, been made by acerbic jokers from Mark Twain to Bernie Mac — is nothing to scoff at.

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