Patty Rosborough is an American

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, actor, and television writer. From 1990 to 1993, she co-hosted ''

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'' with

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. Her stand-up comedy has been televised on

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, A&E,

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, and VH1. Her film credits include minor roles in ''

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'' (1990) and ''Goodbye Baby'' (2007). Rosborough has appeared on the stand-up comedy television series ''The World Stands Up'', and headlined at Just for Laughs, an international comedy festival in

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. In 2000, she and

Tammy Pescatelli Tammy Pescatelli (born Tammy Gillespie) is an American stand-up comedian. Life and career Pescatelli was born in Perry, Ohio, and spent her childhood summers in her mother's hometown of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Pescatelli worked as a morning ra ...

won Ladies of Laughter, a stand-up comedy competition hosted in the

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