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 ...

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 ...

"It was a cathartic experience. It was healing. It was everything I needed," says Marlon Wayans about his Prime Video comedy ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a very fine line between comedy and tragedy. Like sleep and death, laughter and crying are cousins. However, deep sadness isn’t always easy to show in television comedy; there’s only ...

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 ...