Also, the adage, “Comedy is tragedy plus time,” helps us see our way through the sentimentality of insisting on treating sad events as tragedies. The tragic view of some psychoanalytic therapy ...

11 attacks. From David Letterman to Saturday Night Live to Jon Stewart, she traces the ways in which comedy has continued to collide with tragedy, perhaps even more than it did before. And she ...

The difference between comedy and tragedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die, to me it could be comedy. Didn't happen to me. Why do I care? Who gives a shit? But tragedy is if I'll cut my ...

Tragedy + any length of time > 1 month (x) comedy = “What else do you want him to do? Hasn’t he been punished enough?” To calculate consequences, assume that 1 (male) comedian spending 9 ...

Mel Brooks said it best. “To me, tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” When you’re 12, though, the line between comedy and tragedy can thin to ...

Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is a masterclass in mixing visual comedy and tragedy. That’s pretty much what the video essay team at Storytellers did for their latest deep dive ...

Mohammed Amer has spoken about his family's experience as Palestinian refugees in standup comedy. He spent nearly a decade turning it into a... Mohammed Amer's new series explores the tragedy and ...

You have our attention. What follows this surrealistic prologue is one of the most surprising fusions of comedy and tragedy to have played on a Shaw Festival stage in some time. Bond’s play is ...

“We’ve all had that in our own lives. You know, tragedy and comedy. I mean, that’s just what life is,” she shared, emphasizing the value of being able “to do that and to still have the ...

Also, the adage, “Comedy is tragedy plus time,” helps us see our way through the sentimentality of insisting on treating sad events as tragedies. The tragic view of some psychoanalytic therapy ...