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Mike Walter back with the old WUSA-9 news team, Andrea Roane and Kim Martucci. (File photo)

"I wish I could have delivered the news about myself. [anchorman voice] 'Fifty-three thousand people lost their jobs -- and I was one of them. I just had an exclusive interview with myself. And here's what I had to say: "This is [poppycock]!" ' "

-- Former WUSA-9 anchor Mike Walter using some decidedly non-anchor language in his stand-up routine at Friday's "Commedia dell Media," a comedy fundraiser for the National Press Club and Reporters Without Borders, featuring a lot of very dark layoff humor from varyingly employed Washington journalists.