Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. . You can be assaulted while you are laughing.
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You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
More Abe Burrows Quotes
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Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. . You can be assaulted while you are laughing.
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It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial.
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Vulnerability..You can be assaulted while you are laughing.
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The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously.
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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I’ve never been able to teach anyone.
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You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
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Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
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