Comedy - the Satire of Tragedy

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Hollywood is the only community in the world where the entire population is suffering from rumortism. – Bert Lahr

I thing you laugh at a great comedian because you want to cry. Laughter is never too far from tears. – Bert Lahr

Comedy is the satire of tragedy. – Harry Langdon

The oddest thing about the whole funny business is that the public really wants to laugh, but it’s the hardest thing to make them do it. They don’t want to cry, yet they will cry at the slightest provocation. – Harry Langdon

There are three things that are real to me – God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third. – Jerry Lewis

Three from the “king of comedy” – Max Sennett

Any little success I have had was because I was one of the mob and catered to the mod.

You know the art of screen slapstick has been mostly lost. Yet people love slapstick. The lowering of dignity is always funny. There is a great deal of humor in the combination of surprise and violence.

We were awash with pretty women, clowns, and storytellers who couldn’t write. We made a million dollars so fast my fingers ached from trying to count.

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