#comedygenius

“I’ve always felt that comedy is reality. What isn’t real isn’t identifiable; man only laughs when he identifies. If the comedic form is not reality in its purest sense, it often becomes a caricature of reality. Comedy is never fantasy, although fantasy can be comedic. Pure fantasy is seldom genuinely funny because it stands as an entity in itself.

Identification, and identification alone, is what makes comedy work. If the punch line of an American joke is delivered in Swedish to an American audience, you won’t hear a thistle drop. Comedy does not need to be verbal, of course. Anyone can identify with the fat man who drops his ice-cream cone on taking the first lick. But if it is verbal, it must be understood for identification.

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