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Let’s get into detail about our obsession wish details. In Truth in Comedy we discussed how there has to be a germ of truth at the base of all comedy, otherwise it floats away like a kite without a string, or comes crashing to earth, either way the humor fails. Your audience has [...]
Kahil Gibran the Persian author of The Prophet, wrote, “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.”
Mel Brooks had a slightly different take, “Tragedy is when I get a papercut. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole.”
William Shakespeare in Hamlet [...]
In my series on Jury Duty last week, Jaz from Off The Cuff made a comment regarding a story I used in the post Jury Duty – Oh the Drama!
His comment was: “That’s an old joke that I have seen on the net for years. This sounds like you saw it yesterday or something. Weird.”
This [...]
