Funny thing about funny.
It’s hard.
The old chestnut about “dying is easy, comedy is hard” isn’t just a happy coincidence. Funny that stands up (oops: 86 that pun)—like Chekhov, the Marx Brothers, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Dorothy Parker and Shakespeare—touches the universal in ways that drama can’t touch.
Think about this: I reckon wit played a huge part in the downfall of Communism. Laughter is about resistance too, a dose of the anarchic in our all-too-conformist lives. Why? Because laughter is about truth. Read more…
