“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
Source: My Autobiography (1964), Ch. 10
“Comedy is not pretty.”
Comedy album "Comedy is Not Pretty"
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“Human life is basically a comedy.”
H.L. Mencken
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
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