“Saying that something is too terrible to joke about is like saying that a disease is too terrible to try to cure it.”

—  Louis C.K.

Charlie Rose interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-LCdcdShdY, 2016

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American comedian and actor 1967

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