GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: It is important for aspiring comedians to be able to endure

A & E both..look fine to me...B & D is out for parallelism & meaning...So it might be A for concision
I guess this one has something to do with initial modifier and ", and laugh at themselves" portions..
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Hi Mike,

Quite some time since I bothered you.. Hope you are doing fine.

Please give your expert analysis/approach