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In an almost last-minute decision, strings were pulled, favors were called in, nouns were verbed, and I base my passport, which means it’s time to pass across the ring for the 2009 Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. Sure, talk to any extremity of the show business industry who has been round since But For Laughs first took over this French-speaking Canadian city more than a quarter-century ago, and they’ll be ready to assure you that the festival isn’t what it formerly was. It’s bigger, and yet not so big that comedians can take to the States with their dreams and pockets filled with six-figure development dea