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If I get a
hard audience they are not going to get away until they
laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them.
-- Ken Dodd
The perception
of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge
of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies
and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes
lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still
convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do
little for him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Comedy, like
sodomy, is an unnatural act.
-- Marty Feldman
The guy has
baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable,
bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever saw; makes itchy
gestures as though he's got crabs under his arms -- but he's
funny.
-- Sterling Ford
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