“What’s the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.”
Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
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