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Actor-comedian Robin Williams, in a two-part interview to be broadcast Thursday and Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” says comedy is a great shield. “It’s a great way to keep people out. Comedy is a defense and also a weapon. You can use it to decimate people and to hold people back, to defuse them . . . if they laugh, they won’t hurt you.”

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