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Mel Brooks

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

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"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

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"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

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"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."

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