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Detectives quickly realised that behind the everyman image, Andrews Jr was the mastermind of a multi-million pound drug empire selling cocaine and heroin on an industrial scale.

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“The tale of ‘Everyman’ was one in which a universal protagonist met with all of the challenges of life and a reckoning with himself and with God,” Hull says.

It’s a work of pageantry, inspired in part by Hull’s fascination with medieval morality plays, specifically the story of “Everyman,” an examination of self and of our relationship to a higher power.

Bargatze’s everyman persona may wear thin as his fame continues to grow — with $82.2 million in gross earnings, he topped Billboard’s 2024 ranking of comedy tours by a wide margin — but at this moment, he could bring a refreshing fish-out-of-water view to the Emmys.

“Those were all defining things that would immediately take him from being an everyman to being a specific man.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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