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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two, he suggests, are intertwined, much like the masks of comedy and tragedy. What “History of Comedy” does within that hour is to bring what are often viewed as isolated incidents into ...

Far from being off-limits in times of distress, comedy might be considered an essential part of the national dialogue. In her essay "Notes on Camp," Susan Sontag wrote, "If tragedy is an ...

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 ...